The near-Earth asteroid 2025 BC10 will pass safely near our planet on Saturday (April 5). The Virtual Telescope Project will ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total ...

ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

The gaps remained a mere curiosity of the solar system for about 100 ... prototypical first discovery whose name origin is a ...

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...

As our cosmic neighbor—the nearest single-star system ... to solar radiation, flares and dense winds to host any living organisms. “Because of this, these sub-Earth size planets probably ...

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At 5.97 light-years from Earth, it is the fourth-closest star to our solar system, after the three interconnected stars of the Alpha Centauri system. (Five potential planets have also been detected ...