New research shows hidden Venus asteroids could unleash city-sized impacts. Learn why they’re so hard to spot and how telescopes might find them.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

Earth, captured once a day by the EUMETSAT meteorological satellite, have been time-lapsed. (video looped) Credit: Simon Proud / NCEO / EUMETSAT ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...

September's partial solar eclipse was not just caught by eager skywatchers on Earth but also by satellites orbiting high ...

Copernicus proved the Earth and other planets orbit the sun, challenging centuries of belief and risking persecution for sharing his heliocentric view.

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

NASA announced the 2025 class of astronauts, and it includes someone who already is a record-breaking astronaut.

Fall is officially here. Here's when the autumnal equinox happens and when the United States changes the clocks at the end of ...

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 Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get ...