Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...

The string of planets continues to stretch across our predawn skies, with Saturn reaching its brightest in over 15 years.

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

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

The fear of an asteroid collision sometimes haunts our imagination, especially after the cataclysmic event that eradicated ...

The European Space Agency’s Plato spacecraft has safely arrived at ESTEC, ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands. There, ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

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

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

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

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, ...