Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

The world's space agencies are keeping close watch on an asteroid heading our way, because there's currently a 1 in 83 chance ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… Tesla?” Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC) announced ...

An "extraordinarily rare planetary alignment" will be able to be seen in Bolton next month. Stargazers across the borough and beyond will be treated to a special event next month, with the display ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Scientists have revealed the exact date for when a 'city-destroying' asteroid is set to smash into Earth. The asteroid was ...

Earth" planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet—a planet ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

I was 20 years old and a member of the 7th Cavalry near the DMZ in South Korea when the first Space Shuttle was launched in 1981. The launch took place, not intentionally, on the 20th anniversary ...