NASAs Perseverance rover has collected a historic rock sample dating back to the Noachian era on Mars. This discovery could provide insights into the formation of planets over 4.1 billion years ago ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

The study of planets beyond the solar system has reached an unprecedented milestone, with over 5,700 confirmed exoplanets.

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

A star system has been discovered to be moving at an estimated 1.2 million miles per hour, making it possibly the fastest moving solar system in our galaxy.

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...

SCIENTISTS do not have much time to deflect the asteroid a size of a football pitch that is hurtling towards Earth, an expert ...

The impact on the oceans if the Moon disappeared would be much smaller tides, about one-third the size of what they are now. Tides churn up material in the oceans, which allows coastal ecosystems to ...