The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

A 36-foot-wide asteroid pulled into Earth’s orbit has become a second "mini-moon" for almost two months. But this ...

The migration of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune from closer to wider orbits around the sun occurred 60-100 million ...

(The Ordovician period of Earth’s history lasted from 485 million years ago to 443 million years ago ... since it would have to involve an asteroid approaching the Earth at a very specific velocity.

The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009 to discover Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars, collected data on 170,000 ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, was researching young transiting systems in space when ...

Join us for an illuminating conversation with 2024 Booker Prize winner Samantha Harvey, discussing her groundbreaking novel ...

Samantha Harvey’s novel 'Orbital' has won the Booker Prize. In a recent interview, she revealed that the book is more about ...

The book, which follows six people living on the International Space Station, was selected over five other finalists, ...