Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It ...

In real life, the sun and Pluto ... s size and orbital distance. The amount of empty space and difference in size, he says “is just kind of crazy.” “With how small we are compared to how ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bhavya Lal, the former acting Chief Technologist at NASA explains how nuclear power could unlock humanity’s next giant leap in space.

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

A ninth planet the size of Neptune may be hidden in the far reaches of the solar system, but the evidence has left some experts skeptical.

Most near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids that range in size from about 10 feet to nearly 25 miles across. NASA notes: "The majority of near-Earth objects have orbits that don't bring them very ...

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in ...