Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

For example, ring particles — the tiny fragments of rock that make up the rings of planets like Saturn and Uranus — ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The rest of the moons in our solar system, including Jupiter’s and Saturn’s outer moons, were probably gravitationally ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

But in the early 1980s, Dennis Hope, who had been unemployed for around a year, believed he had found a loophole. The Outer ...

This discovery marks a major breakthrough in astronomy and the ongoing search for planets outside our solar system.

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

For the first time in 15 years, you can see a game of shadows across Saturn. You won't see it again until 2040.

Webb has directly imaged a young gas giant planet roughly the size of Saturn, our solar system's second-largest planet ...