Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...

Over the past seven years, a NASA spacecraft has put 4.4 billion miles on the odometer as it traveled into deep space to get ...

Small primordial black holes may be zooming through the solar system, leaving detectable gravitational disruptions.

The sun — which itself is a star — and our solar system are all part of it. With so much ground (or rather space) to cover, it’s no surprise that there are often new developments to learn about space ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

There is a majesty in every view one comes across looking at nature in general during the course of our respective lives. The ...

Astronomers have observed three types of black holes in the universe. Stellar-mass black holes formed from the collapse of a ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

Using the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar System, ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.