The fall equinox is a significant event in any tipped planet's life. Seasons are caused by a planet's tilted axis. Those which orbit the sun standing nearly straight up and down with little to no ...

Is it a full moon tonight? Wondering what is the planet and bright star shining next to the moon? Here's what to know and how to see it.

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it ...

Saturn is about to make its closest approach to Earth, and that means you might be able to see its rings — if you have a ...

Every year, the moon, Earth's reliable celestial companion for 4.5 billion years, is getting 1.5 inches away. The distance to ...

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

In scientific terms, it is normal for some predictions to fail. Not so much in the how, but in the when. A few years ago, some astronomical experts predicted that an asteroid would ...

MOSCOW -- Asteroid 2025 FA22, one of the largest of its kind to approach Earth this year, passed by safely on Thursday, according to Russian scientists.

Specialists specified that the asteroid’s next passage near Earth will take place in 11 years, on August 20, 2036 ...