Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

The boundless potential of astronomical discovery contrasts sharply with the backwardness and reaction promoted by Trump and ...

The agency said that key components of the ambitious project, including the Long March 10 heavy-lift carrier rocket, the ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

A recent government report, produced with support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Copenhagen Climate ...

At such close proximity to its star, the planet is likely covered in magma boiling off into space. As the roasting planet ...

The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

Tuesday April 22 is Earth Day, an annual event to focus on the challenges to combat climate change, the plastics crisis, biodiversity loss and much more. Here's how people are marking it.