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

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 ...

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.

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon ... rocky object that orbits the sun. Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn posted a simulation to X of what the asteroid's ...

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 ...