On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into ... if space tourism is left unregulated. The WNYC science program “Radiolab” partnered with the International ...

Space exploration is no longer the domain of countries alone. It’s now rapidly becoming the domain of private interests.

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...