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

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

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

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

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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

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

This phenomenon, also known as a beaver moon, occurs when the Moon is both full and at the closest point to Earth, making it ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Researchers announced the discovery of what is believed to be the world's largest coral near the ... on planet Earth, we find ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...