Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just 77,200 miles of our planet-roughly one-third ...

However, the 74 million tonne space rock, which was first discovered in 1999, could potentially strike Earth in around one ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...