Sci-fi planets like Dune's Arrakis and Star Wars' Tatooine might look cool, but according to NASA they're more fiction than ...

January's planetary parade may be over, but stargazers in the Hudson Valley may get to see a chance to see more beauty in the ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.

Word is sure getting around about the "parade of planets" visible in our evening sky! Many of the news outlets and social media sites are posting articles or stories about ...

Astronomers discover an unusual neutron star that emits double pulses, challenging theories about stellar remnants.

Will the Lower Hudson Valley be able to see these celestial spectacles Feb. 1 and 3? It depends on the weather.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The Lanzarote lava tube system is an accessible testing ground for DLR's SCOUT Rover, tailor-made for navigating the complex ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle accelerators, which leads to a significant impact on the interpretation of the ...