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

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

Or, for those who remember vinyl records, think of the grooves around the central hub as the planets' orbits. Earth’s orbit lies in that same plane, so from our perspective, we cannot see the ...

Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits in a "habitable zone" of a star similar to the sun.

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...

Edward Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, explains that this discovery has more to do with the observation of orbits of other planets. "In about 1604 ...