Neptune and Saturn are two Moon-widths apart all month, while the morning sky hosts Venus and Uranus together in Taurus.

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Planetary Scientists Find Unexpected Mineral In 496-Million-Ton Asteroid — And It Defies Ryugu's Origin Story The latest ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

World Asteroid Day is observed every year on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroids and the potential hazards they pose ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet. The first of these little-known companions to the Jovian giant was ...

Meanwhile, Venus and Saturn — both beaming in the morning sky — welcome Jupiter into the fold. The gas giant makes its first appearance at mid-month in Gemini, low in the northeast about an hour ...

Rocks found on Earth may have originated from Mercury: a potential breakthrough for astronomers.

A fiery meteor blazed through the skies of Georgia on Thursday afternoon, captured on dashcams across the Southeast, startling residents.

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

It can be found inside gas giants such as Jupiter and is briefly created during meteorite impacts or in laser fusion ...