Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Scientists have officially confirmed the discovery of a new super-Earth, HD 20794 d, located just 20 light-years away. This ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

HD 20794 d, with a mass six times that of Earth, orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet’s location within the habitable ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

An image of the solar system orbiting the Sun is seen ... and it is only because of Earth's atmosphere and specific location in its orbit around the Sun that sunlight can be a source of nurturing ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on Earth.” If that wasn’t enough, another team—led by meteorite ...