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

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.

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

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 ...

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

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

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 ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

“There is some luck involved, because you would expect only around one ... a white dwarf, the Sun will lose half its mass, and Earth, if it survives, may expand its orbit to twice its current ...

Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3's ...

The Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a final swing past Venus on November 6, which will nudge it into an extremely tight orbit around our sun. Once it reaches its final position around our ...

rocky object that orbits the sun. Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn posted a simulation to X of what the asteroid's path will look like. 2024 PT5 has already been near Earth since July. During the event, ...