Footage captured by the Firefly Aerospace lunar landing mission shows our planet peeking out behind the impressive bulk of ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

How fast is Earth moving? The sun doesn't sit idly in the center of these ellipses at equal distance from their farthest points. It actually follows its own tiny elliptical orbit around what is ...

Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun ... so slowly — once every 58 Earth days — in some places, the sun can appear overhead for weeks ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...

After its close approach to the Earth, 2024 PT5 is slowly receding away in its new, more distant orbit. But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...

An international team, including the UNIGE, has discovered a super-Earth that will enable astronomers to test new hypotheses ...

VENUS, the so-called planet of love, is set to shine its brightest all year tomorrow – coincidentally, on Valentine’s Day. The second planet from the Sun won’t glow as bright ...