If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.

Martian Moon Deimos Might Have Reshaped Itself and Its Orbit: Dr. Matija Ćuk, SETI Institute research scientist, and collaborators propose that Mars’s smaller moon may have undergone repeated ...

The familiar gray disk in our sky has long been framed as a fossil world, frozen in time since the early days of the solar ...

Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the ...

The first false-color image from ESA's newly operational Biomass satellite shows off a unique perspective of the rainforests, grasslands and wetlands surrounding a winding river in Bolivia.

This month's The Sky Above features astronomical events happening this month, including a parade of planets and a local ...

In a major step for Chinese scientific engineering, the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry has unveiled the country's first domestically developed system for analyzing the structures of ...

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Vandi Verma has emerged as one of the key figures behind a landmark moment in planetary exploration. On December 8 and 10, ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers make most precise measurement to date, say ...

India's space sciences budget quadruples to ₹428.31 crore, reflecting a significant boost in funding for space programs.