An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth ... system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

The solar system may hold a hidden surprise ... Astronomers believe Planet Nine might be 5-7 times Earth’s size. It could orbit the sun 200 times farther than Earth. A single orbit might ...

The solar system consists of 8 planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Each ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with ...