A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

2024 PT5 will be a temporary visitor, arriving in September and flying off again in November.

It is expected to follow a horseshoe-type orbit to become a “mini-moon” of Earth on 29 September only to return to a path orbiting the Sun about 57 days later on 25 November, according to the study.

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

An asteroid impacted Earth earlier today, just a mere few hours after being discovered by astronomers. Thankfully, it didn't ...

The new exoplanet, named TOI-1408 c, is situated about 455 light-years from our solar system and orbits its star in a bizarre ...

Beyond Earth's blue skies stretches a universe full of possibilities, including countless stars with planets that might ...

An illustration shows the Earth's tectonic plates ... plate tectonics wouldn't have started until much later. "Our planet is the only planet in the solar system that has active plate tectonics ...

A team of researchers led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet with unusual behavior that challenges ...

This illustration shows what exoplanet ... atmospheres with [this mission].” Earth-like Bocaprins certainly is not. Bocaprins is an odd planet. It orbits very close to its host star and appears ...