JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) that was launched in 2023 will take about 8 years to arrive at the jovian system ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white dwarf stealing matter from a nearby donor star. Occasionally, that matter ...

The findings were published this week in Nature Astronomy. This animation shows the motion of Ammonite over several hours. Based on its brightness at the time of observation, its diameter is estimated ...

Astronomers have upped the odds that "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash ... Still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact ...