The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, simulations show.

From massive glaciers to sun-soaked beaches, national parks offer some of America’s wildest and most iconic landscapes.

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

In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

A monumental new artwork representing the Sun has arrived in Plymouth. Internationally renowned artist Luke Jerram has ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

The region where the gravitational influence of Earth is the dominant force, is called the Hill Sphere. This extends up to 1.5 million kilometers (almost a million miles) away. If a small asteroid ...

Students studied the stars and moon at the GO-STEM Starlab planetarium at the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive ...

Two NOAA satellites saw a solar eclipse on Sept. 7 as the moon blocked out the sun mere hours before a lunar eclipse was seen ...

Archaeologists explore the Antikythera shipwreck. The Antikythera Mechanism is now split into 82 fragments, only 30% has been ...

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the exoplanet GJ 9827 d, twice the size of Earth and located around 100 ...