"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Earth is a profoundly isolated rock. The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set against the black ether of space. The ...

Humanity's exploration of outer space continues to unveil astonishing discoveries that challenge our understanding of the ...

Credit: Penn State Behrend / Penn State. Creative Commons Today, the Moon is at a distance where it experiences the competing gravitational influences of both the Sun and the Earth. This could affect ...

An asteroid, the size of India Gate, will pass close to Earth today. The asteroid, named 2019 VU5, is travelling at a speed ...

One of the most challenging aspects of astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is anticipating ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon ... calendar vary in size due to the distance from Earth and are shown at 0h ...

This may sound like an immense distance, but on a space scale, this is very close: The moon ... Sun) less than 1.3 ...

From sculptor Yin Xiuzhen's retrospective to Issy Wood's big show of small paintings, here are five shows opening this week ...

FROM the 2050s, it is largely hoped that humans will travel to space, in a similar way to how they travel abroad. It won’t be ...

As a result, not only is the scale of Marineris difficult to ... double star appears in the west, following the sun. It's the Earth and moon. Before coming to Mars, you wondered whether you ...