The naming suggestions in a contest - which ran from last February to April - ranged from the scholarly to the silly, these scientists said. We think you'll like the winners.

The Hayabusa2 mission has confirmed that - if asteroid Ryugu or a similar asteroid were to come dangerously close to Earth - we'd need to take care in trying to divert it, lest it break up into fragments that might then impact Earth.

How did the huge dinosaurs stay cool?  According to a new study, they did it much as today's alligators do, with a built-in 'air conditioner' on the top of their skulls.

With 33 eruptions as of August 27, Steamboat geyser in Yellowstone National Park is having an exceptionally active year.

If you're looking for Venus now - the brightest planet - you won't find it with the eye alone. But it's possible to catch the planet in September 2019, near the sunset, with a telescope.

Saturday's heartbreaking loss of contact with the Vikram lander - part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission to the moon - hasn't changed the upbeat tone of India's space science. Here's what we know so far.

These next couple of nights - September 7 and 8, 2019 - use the waxing gibbous moon to find the planet Saturn.

The Vikram lander was to have made India the 4th nation of Earth to soft land on the moon. Contact with it was lost just 1.3 miles (2.1 km) above the moon's surface.

Astronomers have found evidence for a possible exomoon orbiting a gas giant planet 550 light-years away. If they're interpreting the evidence correctly, this moon would be a place of destruction, even more volcanically active than Jupiter's famous volcanic moon, Io.

An extinct species of giant penguin – over 5 feet (1.6 meters) tall – has been identified from fossils found in New Zealand.