Earlier this year, a “city killer” asteroid made headlines for its slim chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA now says that ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

RSCC - Ted Stryk, Roane State Associate Professor of Philosophy and English, had an asteroid named in his honor upon ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.