An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Previous observations suggested that Ceres was less than 30% ice, and its craters were thought to imply that the dwarf planet ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet ... close range, scientists consider it a "potentially hazardous object." That's about the ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

A chunk of rock and ice about the same size as a bus is due to skim past the Earth ... planet than the moon. This may sound like an immense distance, but on a space scale, this is very close ...

NASA scientists flag locations along these objects paths as close approaches when they are slated to arrive at points within 4.6 million miles from the Earth's surface, which equates to roughly 19.5 ...