A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.
Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep ...
The image above shows a striking cloud pattern sculpted by gravity waves, which are common ripples in both Mars' and Earth's ...
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 ...
A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...
NASA is weeks away from sending its Clipper orbiter on a journey to the Jupiter moon Europa, which scientists believe could ...
The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost ...
"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.
The enormous asteroid, dubbed the "God of Chaos" or 99942 Apophis, is said to be on a collision course with Earth - and the ...
Astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun have discovered a new planet in the constellation of the Great ...