The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX in 2018.

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky. On February 1, we should see the crescent moon in ...

The asteroid is currently 27 million miles away and has a 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032. After the NASA-funded ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Scientists say that a newly discovered space-rock has a chance of colliding with our planet in less than 10 years ...

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

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

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 ...

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