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

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

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

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.

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

At a whopping 728 feet wide, the newfound basin hints at the risks that impact events may pose to planned human outposts.

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.

खगोलविदों ने पृथ्वी के पास मौजूद अंतरिक्ष चट्टान (space rock) की सूची बनाई है। विशेषज्ञों का मानना है कि इनमें से करीब 2,000 ...

Sheppard joined Carnegie as a prestigeous NASA Hubble Fellow in 2004 and was appointed to a faculty position in 2007. He ...

The crater, named after geologist and lunar surface expert Tom McGetchin, spans more than two football fields wide ...

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