A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

New proposed space missions, led by the University of Leicester, will study stellar impacts on planets and Earth’s ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

The mother planet’s immense gravity pulls and pushes ... NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute Every 30 years or so, a planetary-scale hurricane brews in Saturn’s atmosphere.

Learn about those who have explored space in the past and what they found out! Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and First ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA spoke from the International Space Station for the first time since their Boeing ...

During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and rocked by ...