Over the weekend, Saturn's gorgeous rings will nearly vanish from sight. No worries, they'll be back in a couple of weeks.
The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.
New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...
Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...
Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.
Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun-like star.
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...