Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as ...

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

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

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

Exciting new research suggests there are four miniature planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, each thought to be just 20 to 30% ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky ...

Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...