Weird Al now has a mile-wide asteroid named after him — and the scientist behind it says his songs launched her career.

Over the past 50 years, musician “Weird Al” Yankovic has become the first artist to have a comedy album debut at #1 on the ...

"Weird Al" Yankovic has received the astronomical honor of having an asteroid named after him, with (14331) Alyankovic ...

Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, ...

A high school student discovered a comet using publicly available NASA spacecraft images, turning a school project into an astronomy career and major scientific recognition.

One of the few asteroids we've managed to sample, Bennu contains a curious mix of cosmic dust that could provide insights into how our own planet formed.

Watching space rocks obscure stars is easier than you think ...

Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to join an ISS expedition, is set to command NASA’s SpaceX Crew 13 mission to the space station.

The asteroid Bennu orbits the sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved naming an asteroid after musician and actor 'Weird' Al Yankovic.

New research has pinned down the onset of the "RNA World," a hypothetical time in Earth's very early history when RNA was the primary replicating substance.

Google Fellow John Platt spent two hours on the Latent Space podcast explaining why he believes AI-for-science just crossed a threshold that ...