General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

The planets are visible throughout February, "but they’ll be lined up best toward the end of the month,” NASA says.

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...

Comet C/2023 P1, Nishimura visible from Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Space.com Senate shutdown deal stalls over Graham objection Video shows airport bystander bodyslamming TSA breach ...

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Trapped somewhere between the big ideas of "2001" and the fun of a galaxy far, far away, this 1979 movie is a true space oddity.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Could we prevent in-orbit crashes in the future by using advanced computer models?

It almost sounds like a sci-fi movie. But scientists say something like this could really happen to Earth, just not for billions of years. Astronomers have spotted a bizarre strip of iron stretching ...

Women may outnumber men in animation schools, but the reported 60-40 gender split slips away in key creative roles out in the working world. “There are more women than men that go to animation school, ...

CALIFORNIA — The four-person civilian Fram2 mission returned home in a splash down off the coast of California on Friday after being the first humans to orbit Earth's polar regions. Riding in SpaceX’s ...