Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

Over billions of years, a planet will have encountered all the small bodies in its vicinity enough times to clear its orbit of them.

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft got a boost on its way to the similarly-named asteroid 16 Psyche. Gravitational boosts — when one or ...

There are parts of the universe, and of the electromagnetic spectrum, that we’re not covering with our telescopes—but not as ...

Although I already shared my hands-on experience with the photography kit in the vivo X300 Ultra review, the weather during ...

Long before telescopes revealed an unruly Solar System, Dante Alighieri imagined something terrible falling from the heavens. In his 14th-century Inferno, the falling object was Lucifer, the Lord of ...

Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of an ...

While there is no immediate danger, this crash highlights that space junk is increasingly expanding out of lower-Earth orbit ...

Tonight is "blue moon Eve" (see the May 31 entry for more details). Late tonight, look toward the southeast to see one of the sky's most striking color contrasts. The bright, nearly full moon will be ...

After a meteoric rise last week, shares of Poet Technologies plummeted almost as quickly on Monday after the company disclosed cancellations of several purchase orders. Shares of Poet POET fell more ...

Later this year, two spacecraft are scheduled for launch on missions to land somewhere near the rim of Shackleton Crater, an impact basin near the Moon’s south pole harboring an immense reservoir of ...