Clyde Tombaugh didn't set out to discover Pluto when he sent his sketches of the night sky to Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff ...

After signing Alex Bregman, the Boston Red Sox's lineup ... a loaded minor league system, with three of the top 11 MLB prospects. While it’s difficult to choose two of the three, here are ...

Two of the stars are Sun-like ones locked in a binary dance, while another star, a dim red dwarf ... a shell of icy objects that surrounds the solar system, the researchers said. Alpha Centauri is ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the ...

Two of the stars are Sun-like ones locked in a binary dance, while another star, a dim red ... icy objects that surrounds the solar system, the researchers said. Alpha Centauri is also moving ...

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...

"For decades, Pluto was seen as the ninth planet of the solar system, an underdog among its much larger planetary siblings of the inner planets and the gas giants beyond the asteroid belt." ...

NASA analysis of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 indicates it has >1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, which also means there's ~99% chance this asteroid will not impact. Such initial ...

An artist's impression shows a generic asteroid. Detecting the threat of near-Earth objects such as asteroids that could cause harm to our planet is a primary focus of NASA and other space ...