Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Macquarie University astronomers have tracked an extreme planet's orbital decay, confirming it is spiralling towards its star in a cosmic death dance ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Now, almost exactly a year since one of Earth’s most impressive light shows, researchers have released brilliant new images of Jupiter’s auroras, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Jupiter's auroras, though, put Earth's to shame. Not only are the auroras on Jupiter gigantic, they are hundreds of times more energetic than those in Earth’s atmosphere, according to NASA.

Millions of asteroids, not a planet, exist in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. If all asteroids combined, their mass would be only 4% of the Moon's mass.