Jupiter and Mars will appear to make ultraclose approaches to the moon on two nights this week. Here's how to get the best ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting the gas giant Jupiter since 2016 ... to its observations and the data it streams back to Earth. It’s also been one of NASA’s favorite photographers ...

And while Earth, of course ... Because Io is so close to its massive host planet, the moon is subjected to a tremendous gravitational pull as it orbits Jupiter once about every 42 hours, according ...