While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

A small asteroid spotted only hours before it struck the atmosphere has become a touchstone for how fragile, and how powerful ...

Gravitational wave astronomy is starting to do more than confirm Einstein’s equations. It is turning into a precision tool ...

Learn how astronauts are safeguarded from hazardous space debris through innovative engineering and international ...

The upcoming comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered by a NASA-funded telescope in Chile, is creating excitement as it approaches Earth, ...

Watch the 3I/ATLAS livestream tonight as the interstellar comet reaches its closest point to Earth. NASA confirms findings on its unique "wobbling jet" and origin.

This composite Hubble Space Telescope image shows the debris ring and dust clouds cs1 and cs2 around the star Fomalhaut. For comparison, dust cloud cs1, imaged in 2012, is pictured with dust cloud cs2 ...

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open. You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are most likely to enter our solar system from two specific directions, a new study suggests. What does it mean for Earth? When you purchase through links on our ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring system in near-real time. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...