On March 6, 1986, the Soviet Union's Vega 1 spacecraft flew by Halley's Comet. Vega 1 was the first of five missions to fly by Halley's Comet in the same month. This fleet of spacecraft has been ...

Controllers rushed to turn off some of the lander’s equipment to conserve power while trying to determine what went wrong.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander planned to deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful ...

From America, a unique spectacle will be witnessed. Space photo: Last view of the 'Great Comet of 2025' for 500,000 years ...

"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Travis Kelce Admits Financial ...

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

G3 (ATLAS), the 'Great Comet of 2025,' lit up the night sky in Chile, offering a rare and breathtaking sight for stargazers, ...