Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

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So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

Recently, Chinese scientists announced that the country is planning to impact an asteroid, and this news quickly surged to ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist. New research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, is set to reshape ...

How did a planet this big form around a star this small? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Liège and collaborators in UK, Chile, the USA, and Europe, ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will probably be the moon. And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite you can see with your ...

The so-called “black moon‚“ an obscure moniker for a new moon from the Farmers’ Almanac, will make an appearance early Saturday — but you won’t be able to see it. When a season has four new moons, the ...