Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

Retrofuturistic styling, synthetics with no regard for human life, and people being munched like popcorn — that's the Alien ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

Proctor/J. Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest ...

Saturn has "gained" a staggering 128 new moons in a groundbreaking discovery by astronomers in Taiwan. The find, made by a ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the 'devastating' effects of nearby supernova explosions, a new study suggests. Researchers say these super-powerful blasts ...