In a cosmic twist of fate, scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid previously thought to pose ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

These rather small planets are a stone's throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to ...