Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. Around January 2 or 3, ...

Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its ...

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they're extremely hard to see. In the space shared by the orbit of Venus, hundreds ...

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its ...

A population of asteroids silently shares Venus's orbit, creating a potential threat to our planet. These celestial bodies, ...

A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely unknown. Astronomers have now confirmed the existence of 2025 PN7, a so-called ...

A new planetary system was discovered about 4,000 light-years away from our own. The findings may provide answers as to what will happen to Earth when the sun finally burns out. In the newfound system ...

A massive interstellar object is racing through our solar system at breakneck speed, and scientists are scrambling to ...