Firefly Aerospace's "little lander" has captured the littlest lunar eclipse in a breathtaking video captured from Earth orbit ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

How fast is Earth moving? The sun doesn't sit idly in the center of these ellipses at equal distance from their farthest points. It actually follows its own tiny elliptical orbit around what is ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

The trend of increasing daylight will continue beyond February, culminating in the longest day of the year on the summer ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...