Recapping some of the most talked-about news this week from the nation and around the world – in case you missed it.

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...

Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together ...

The moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...

NASA’s Planetary Defense team tracks thousands of near-Earth objects, but only a handful pose a real threat. These massive ...

The comet is the third interstellar object from deep space ever recorded to pass through Earth’s solar system.

Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...