The massive gas giant that is Jupiter sits anywhere between 365 million miles and 601 million miles away from Earth depending on where ...

KIC 8462852 was all the rave recently when researchers speculated that the star’s mysterious dimming could be because of alien megastructures. They just ...

The jubilation of Philae’s landing turned to concern as mission controllers learned more about Philae’s landing. It was supposed to fire several harpoons ...

One asteroid just wants to be a comet. Dubbed asteroid 62412, it even sports a tail like you would see on a comet. ...

UPDATE: Philae is on the comet! Congrats to the ESA! At just after 3:30 am ET, the European Space Agency’s Philae lander detached ...

It has been more than a decade in the making. The European Space Agency’s spacecraft Rosetta met up with the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko back ...

NASA officials have chewed through the latest data from two NASA spacecraft and one European spacecraft, and have learned more about the comet ...

You’ve seen comet Siding Spring from Earth. Now, NASA is releasing images from the orbiters and rovers from Mars. The image below was ...

Comet Siding Spring’s encounter with Mars has been dubbed a “once-in-a-lifetime” event by researchers. On Sunday, at 2:27 p.m ET, Siding Spring came ...

On Sunday, Mars will have a visitor. At its closest point, Siding Spring will be less than 87,000 miles away from the red ...

The time and place for the Rosetta to release its lander has been confirmed. The lander, Philae, will be aiming for ‘Site J’ ...