An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington Monument is due to zip past our planet today. The asteroid, named ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

Naturally, the same goes for the sunset. Since the winter solstice, the sun has been setting progressively later at a faster ...

Perihelion is when Earth is closest to the Sun, happening between January 2 and 4. In 2025, it will occur on January 4 at ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

The fact that Earth is at perihelion has little to do with the seasons. The difference in solar radiation received by our ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

Skywatchers are excited about a rare event this week as Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024), the brightest comet in nearly 20 years, ...

A renewed rivalry between the United States and China in space exploration has placed special focus on Lagrange points.