The International Astronomical Union has expressed concern over Uwingu's "Name A Mars Crater" project.
The European Space Agency's Venus Express Orbiter captured a rainbow-like "glory" on Venus.
New data from the ALMA telescope has found that protostars within a certain distance from highly luminous O-type stars can destroy the raw materials needed to form new planets.
"Cosmos" premiered on Sunday and NASA tweeted throughout the show to give viewers and in-depth look at featured missions and images.
NASA's WISE Survey didn't observe the hypothetical gas giant "Planet X."
A fireball was captured on camera in Yellowknife in northern Canada early Thursday morning.
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 being torn apart by the galaxy cluster Abell 3627.
An asteroid called is scheduled to make a pass by Earth on Wednesday. Watch the live stream of the near-Earth encounter here.
A new study says there is at least one planet orbiting every red dwarf stars and there are close to 160 billion red dwarfs in the Milky Way alone.
The reactivated NEOWISE spacecraft has detected its first comet.
NASA announced the discovery of 715 new planets based on data collected by the Kepler space observatory.
An X-class solar flare, which may be the largest recorded this year, erupted at 7:50 p.m. EST on Monday.
NASA has set up a center in the Japanese island of Tanegashima for the Global Precipitation Measurement launch.
A common weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetosphere may have serious consequences when they occur near Venus.
The European Space Agency announced its exoplanet-hunting PLATO mission will launch in 2024.
A team of astronomers are looking for a lost object, an 885-foot asteroid that failed to appear as projected on Feb. 17.
A huge asteroid heads toward Earth this evening, here is everything you need to know about it.
Scientists from NASA have uncovered a strange magnetic field surrounding our solar system, shedding new light on our mysterious boundary with the heliosphere.
ESA engineers will apply a charcoal made from burnt bone to the outermost layer of the Solar Orbiter to protect the spaceship from solar radiation.
Astronomers were able to analyze the internal structure of an asteroid for the first time ever.
Kepler-413b wobbles on its spin axis like a top which drastically alters its orbit and seasons on the planet.
Researchers have created the first surface and cloud maps for brown dwarfs.