The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...

An international team of astronomers has performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a compact stellar system ...

Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun and were typically formed during the solar system's development ...

Another “Dome After Dark” event will be highlighted at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium next month.

Never-before-seen “dark beads” and other unique structures were observed in the atmosphere above the north pole of Saturn — stumping astronomers who say the “unexplained” phenomenon has “no analog” in ...

The United States' civil space agency NASA has announced plans to launch a crewed mission around the moon in April next year, ...

A new study has warned that a group of 'invisible' asteroids that orbit the Sun could pose a serious threat to Earth ...

A 10-day mission scheduled for early 2026 will circle the moon and NASA hopes it will pave the way to return humans to the moon as early as 2027.

A coalition of local economic development groups, chambers of commerce and labor unions has launched an effort aimed at ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most massive and active star-forming region in our ...

Astronomers have recently detected a mysterious sphere orbiting a distant star, capturing the attention of the scientific community. This discovery raises intriguing questions about its origin, ...

By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist I am a ’90s dinosaur kid. That means for a third of my life, one thing in the world really ...