Unleash your inner space nerd at these incredible late-night stargazing festivals, hosted across the U.S. national park system every summer.

Billions of years from now, the Sun will swell into a red giant, swallowing Mercury, Venus, and Earth. But that’s not the ...

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

Discovery of a possible dwarf planet suggests our cosmic backyard holds many more secrets to uncover It is an evocative idea ...

The Tianwen-2 mission launched aboard a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province at 1.31am local time in China (3.31am AEST), according to the China National ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

Join us for a journey to the closest planet to our Sun! Despite major discoveries made by NASA space mission MESSENGER, many questions remain unanswered about the interior and history of Mercury.

On May 26th, 2025, a Mercury-Saturn sextile offers a unique opportunity for mental growth and emotional maturity. This ...