Of the five dwarf planets in the Solar System – including Eris, Ceres, Makemake, and Haumea – Pluto is easily the best-known ...

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

Our Sun, the celestial body that has nurtured life on Earth for billions of years, is not eternal. This massive ball of gas ...

Panyushkina and her team at the University of Arizona carefully dissected individual tree rings from ancient wood samples ...

An animation has helped people have a grasp of the speed the International Space Station (ISS) travels at as it orbits the ...

The data used for the simulations was gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Launched in 2010 on an Atlas V ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside ...

The idea that Earth has only one moon is considered to be true, but that isn't always the case. In fact, sometimes, it's had ...

For just a few months, Earth hosted a "second moon," much smaller than our faithful historical companion. This fleeting ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...