NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Harvard astronomers were left red-faced after mistaking Elon Musk's orbiting Tesla Roadster for a potentially dangerous ...

Generally, the nights of and near the new moon – when the moon is not illuminated – are better for most stargazing experiences. Here are the dates of new moons this year.

While the 62-foot-tall (19 meters), four-stage Ceres-1 can send 880 pounds (400 kilograms) to low Earth orbit (LEO), the ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

Publisher CFK and developer Asteroid-J announced the ninja action game, Ninja Issen, will launch for the Nintendo Switch [...] ...

Brightest comet in 20 years to appear this week - ’New Years Comet’ will appear as bright as Venus – and won’t be back for ...

Joel Achenbach writes about science and politics for The Washington Post's National desk. He has been a staff writer for The Post since 1990. He started the newsroom’s first online column, Rough ...

A mountain-sized asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in a "once in a decade" event. The massive space rock zoomed past Earth earlier this month, but it is not out of view just yet and ...

After Onwuzurike played out his four-year, $8.1 million rookie contract, Isaac Zuniga of Last Word on Sports believes Onwuzurike will land a two-year, $20 million deal in free agency. Zuniga would ...

"This is a promising sign that there continues to be new and exciting avenues to explore tidal disruption events and use them ...