A NASA-funded survey telescope in Chile first observed the comet in July.

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...

Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together ...

Most people learned in school that Mercury is just a small, scorched planet close to the Sun. But NASA’s MESSENGER mission ...

NASA has spotted what looks like green rain on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. The moon seems to glow a green color, which is ...

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE ...

Astronomers have revealed that the real center of our solar system isn't the sun. Gravity is playing a part in everything. The barycenter is the center.

Guest: Professor Dagomar Degroot, environmental historian at Georgetown University and author of Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: ...