Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Astronomers have just confirmed for the first time the existence of a "rogue planet"—a world drifting in space without being ...

Situated roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, the planet lacks a parent star and instead drifts solo through space.

When scientists cracked open the first grains from asteroid Bennu, they expected a time capsule of rock and dust. What they ...

While millions flock to the neon embrace of Las Vegas, this geological masterpiece sits in eastern Nevada, putting on a daily performance that outshines any Cirque du Soleil production – and without a ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

It is unclear whether a [3I/ATLAS] would transmit radio signals … such signals would take tens of thousands of years to cross ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, ...