Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

Data scientist Shaowei Ying thinks like a policymaker, builds like an entrepreneur and his leadership path's shaped by ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity that observes light bending.

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...

Casey Chong with ten great 80s sci-fi adventure movies… The 1980s was a great decade for movies with the emergence of modern ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.