For decades, astronomers have searched for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes and optical ...

During the early days of our solar system, giant impacts were common occurrences. Earth likely experienced such an impact ...

On August 24, 2006, Pluto ceased to be considered a planet. A mixture of rock and ice located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This demotion ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

WASHINGTON — Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter ...

A new study suggests that unidentified "co-orbital asteroids" around Venus may have the capacity to impact our planet in the future, with potentially devastating consequences. However, there is no ...

Astronomers are investigating a little-known and largely unseen group of asteroids that quietly orbit the sun alongside Venus — and there may be many more of them than we thought. "It's like ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

The Perseid meteor shower, known for bright meteors, will see reduced visibility this year, with only 10 to 20 meteors per ...

Additional pieces of the meteorite can be viewed at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, where it will be publicly displayed.