A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...
Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...
Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...
Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...
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.
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
2024 may be a record-shattering year of intense heat, not just for us humans, but also for our planet. In this very year, we ...
Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.
Global warming is a global issue and our resilience to its effects should be treated as such, says David Grandorge ...
A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...