NASA has revealed its top skywatching tips for May, and they include a meteor shower, lots of planets, and possibly a nova.

NASA scientists have discovered a distant planet with storms that rage nonstop, creating one of the most extreme weather environments ever observed outside Earth. The discovery could unlock new ...

NASA analyzed 40 years of satellite data to discover mysterious ninth planet at the edge of our solar system, potentially ...

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the coming months. Here's why.

Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon ...

A Soviet spacecraft launched a half-century ago called Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades and is at last ...

The SPHEREx mission will map the universe in both optical and near-infrared light. In the month since arriving at its orbit ...

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked eye sometime in the coming months. When it happens, the nova will ...

The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon. This was the first time that an ...

Scientists predict that in the coming years, Earth's atmosphere will undergo significant changes. Their analysis indicates ...