Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give ...

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

According to a new study, if a primordial black hole passed within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could shift the planet's orbit by about a meter -- causing a "wobble." ...

Physicists are still hot on the trail of a substance that could change everything: dark matter in the form of primordial ...

The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost ...

Mission concepts to the outer solar system are relatively common, as planetary scientists are increasingly frustrated by our lack of knowledge of the farthest planets. Neptune, the farthest known ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own ...

Watching for changes in Mars’ orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter, according to MIT researchers.

A pair of asteroid dynamics researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria have found that a small ...

Celebrate a Harvest Moon lunar eclipse and an occultation of the planet Saturn, just days before Neptune reaches opposition.

A new study suggests that the Sun may have had a close encounter with another star, explaining the unusual orbits of objects ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system ...