A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years, and perhaps even have altered the planet's ...

Earth-like exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than our sun) with oceans, lakes and rivers are thought to be unlikely, but the work reveals that many stars will harbor geological conditions ...

The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible ...

Their results, published in The Astronomical Journal this week, suggest that an Earth-like planet orbits one in every four sun-like stars. Totaled up, that means there could be up to 10 billion ...

2024 PT5 will be a temporary visitor, arriving in September and flying off again in November.

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

According to reports, a small asteroid called a ‘mini-moon’ will circle Earth for 53 days starting at the end of September.

But the universe is throwing things for a loop by introducing a “second moon” for the next two months. In reality, it’s ...

Earth will get a second moon, but only for a couple of months. Here's everything you need to know about this cosmic ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

The Earth has pulled in moons of this type before but none have ever stuck around as long as the moon we know.