Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

and the 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star becomes more stormy and active. The TRACERS mission will specifically focus on ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Jamie Jasinski at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues reanalysed Voyager 2 data from ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

The most dangerous bird species are also some of the most beautiful. These seemingly innocent creatures can pack a punch — or peck — that you definitely want to avoid.

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it happened.