The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

Two further positive signatures include Mercury – deft and adaptable – in Gemini until June 9, and from June 6 Venus ...

Strawberry moon will be at full illumination June 11, the latest of the full moons tied to Native American tradition.

President Trump told cadets in a commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

Scientists believe such an extreme orbit means the object was pushed and pulled by the gravity of giant planets like Jupiter ...

The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...

Two days after its new phase, the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky while the summer constellations ...

At least three city-killing asteroids that could strike Earth are hiding behind our closest neighbor in the solar system.

A FIELD of at least 20 asteroids has been found lurking near Venus, having previously been hidden by the Sun’s glare, experts ...

But what is the science behind extraterrestrial life? Is it possible that humans will ever experience "first contact" with an ...