Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once ...

"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

Earth has captured a new mini-moon, asteroid 2024 PT5, which will orbit our planet for two months. Discovered on September 29 ...

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a once every 5,000 to 10,000 ...

New research reports the most powerful cosmic rays ever detected. Because the rays lose energy as they travel through space, ...

Taking into account a phenomenon first identified by Sir Isaac Newton and later confirmed by Albert Einstein, researchers ...

Unlike Earth's moon, which orbits every 27.3 days, 2024 PT5 won't complete a full orbit, behaving more like a "window shopper ...

To uncover the truth about the origins of these moons, scientists are looking forward to the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) ...

Shiny animals use reflective appearances to confuse predators, creating optical illusions that disrupt tracking and attacks.

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

Phobos and Deimos have long been thought to be captured asteroids due to their small size and irregular, asteroid-like shapes ...