Together, DART and Hera lay the foundations for future planetary protection missions. Focusing on asteroids that could pose harm to our planet, these missions require planning and execution at short ...

This new measurement suggests some comets — particularly those such as 12P/Pons-Brooks — could indeed have delivered water, and possibly other life-essential elements, to a young Earth.

New research uncovered compelling evidence — with the aid of a Big Island telescope atop Mauna Kea — that water from a comet is strikingly similar to that found in Earth’s oceans.

A dramatic event in our galaxy may be giving birth to new stars. A recent study led by Ph.D. student Dilda Berdikhan from the ...

Astronomers have discovered a ghostly, million-light-year-long bridge of stars connecting two massive galaxies within the ...

For a structure like the Green Bank Telescope there’s a lot involved,” Joshua Moore explains. “The telescope itself has over ...

Researchers led by Prof. Zhou Xia from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with ...

In a preview of observations that will be made routinely by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers found evidence ...

A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually ...

While orbiting telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope or the James Webb Space Telescope give researchers a unique view of the cosmos – particularly because they can see light blocked by the ...

How early missions like Pioneer and Voyager turned spacecraft into time capsules, carrying Earth's story across the stars.