The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

The Martian calendar, established in 1955, counts years from the "great dust storm of 1956," a significant event in Mars' ...

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

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

The moon’s orbit around Earth is also an important factor in understanding phenomena such as eclipses and phases. During a ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

A team of astronomers has identified a rocky planet with a mass similar to Earth’s, orbiting a white dwarf star approximately ...

But because the moon's orbit is slightly tilted relative to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere. That was always going to happen. In fact, Binar means “fireball” in the ...