When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

A Noida-based Class 9 student has earned the remarkable distinction of naming an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between ...

The discovery could help scientists get closer to understanding the mysterious invisible matter that makes up the bulk of our ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 2018.

Neptune's discovery in 1846 somewhat accounted for ... and several galactic star clusters over the course of his career. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night ...