The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.

In a cosmic first, McClure and her team stared deep into the gas disk around the baby star and detected solid specks ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Astronomers have witnessed the birth of an entirely new star system for the first time. The budding planets are forming ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...