An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...

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A NASA spacecraft successfully changed an asteroid's orbit by intentionally smashing into it last month, agency officials confirmed Tuesday. NASA said data obtained over the past two weeks showed that ...

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In a solar system far, far away, astronomers have discovered evidence of possible "sibling" planets sharing the same orbit. The researchers detected a cloud of debris in the same orbital path as an ...

New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.

In our Solar System, the planetary orbits all have a similar orientation. Their orbital planes vary by a few degrees, but roughly the planets all orbit in the same direction. This invariable plane, as ...

NASA leaders say Earthlings now have a way to fight back if an asteroid is headed here after successfully changing the orbit of an asteroid by slamming an appliance-size spacecraft into the space rock ...

A possible cousin of Pluto seems to be circling the far reaches of the solar system. The dwarf planet candidate 2017 OF201 travels in a superwide orbit, with the sun relatively near one end of its ...