While the night sky might be set aglow with fireworks and bonfires in the UK next Wednesday, there’s another dazzling sight ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

With only five years left at the complex, NASA is counting on private companies to launch their own orbiting stations with an ...

The risk of a cosmic body striking the Earth—or exploding in the atmosphere—may be higher in 2032 and 2036, researchers have ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Most people would think that Earth only has one moon, but in reality it's had multiple moons on more than one time. And right ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...

Two decently bright comets that share a superficial resemblance are gracing our skies right now, in fact: C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) ...

Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...

The 2025 PN7 is Earth's newly confirmed quasi-moon, a tiny asteroid (approx. 19m wide) that orbits the Sun in sync with our ...

"It's quite a violent process in setting off from planet Earth towards space," Christoph Grainger-Herr, chief executive of ...

Unlike the Moon, which is gravitationally bound to Earth, 2025 PN7 is classified as a quasi-moon — a near-Earth object that ...