Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size planet ... for telescopes to detect orbiting planets. In addition to being ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf star about 4,000 light-years away. This discovery ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting ...

Earth zooms around the sun at 110,000 kph, but what if it just...stopped? Well, for one thing, you'd have only a month to live. First off, if Earth stopped short, you'd actually die immediately ...

As well as the Earth spinning on its axis, at the same time it is also orbiting the Sun ... the northern hemisphere (where we live) is tilted away from the Sun. Sunlight hits the northern ...

A recently discovered comet, known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, will make its closest approach of Earth on Saturday.

For the next two months, an unusual object about the size of a bus will be orbiting above our heads. Say hello to Earth’s temporary new mini-moon. From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid ...

Astronomers found a new exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s Star. The planet, Barnard b, completes its orbit in 3.15 days.

Near-Earth objects are defined as natural physical objects floating in space, such as asteroids (space rocks) or comets (dirty space snowballs made of rock and ice), that are orbiting the sun and ...