Here's a reconstructed "perspective view" of the tallest mountain on Ceres, which in turn is the largest world in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Earthly astronomers call the mountain Ahuna Mons.

Join online as leading space scientists discuss the legacy of Apollo 11 during the mission's 50th anniversary this week.

Following NASA's DART mission, if all goes as planned, an European Space Agency mission called Hera will also visit Didymos and its moon, to gather vital, detailed information. Watch a video, where astrophysicist and Queen guitarist Brian May explains more.

This is a particularly photogenic spiral galaxy, called NGC 2903. You can see its pinwheeling spiral arms, scatterings of stars, glowing bursts of gas, and dark lanes of cosmic dust.

Nearly 100 countries have already signed up to organize national campaigns, to provide the public with an opportunity to vote. The deadline is July 30 to express interest in organizing a national campaign. The IAU will announce results in December.

A new study suggests a series of supernovae - peaking 2.6 million years ago - might have triggered earthly events that promoted proto-humans’ upright walking.

Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1 and ends November 30. Here's how forecasters make predictions, whether to stay or evacuate, what kinds of risks extend inland, and how your social networks can help or hurt you.

April 2019 was the 2nd-hottest April in the climate record, dating back to 1880, and the period from January-April was the 3rd-hottest year-to-date on record. In the Arctic, sea ice coverage shrunk to a record April low.

"A cello sounds like a cello because of its size and shape,” said astronomer Jacqueline Goldstein. “The vibrations of stars also depend on their size and structure."

Before we send people to Mars, we need to understand more about how Martian dust could affect astronauts and their equipment. Here are 3 things we’ve learned from the planet’s 2018 global dust storm.