Derived from the Greek words peri (around) and helios (sun ... the term "aphelion" refers to the point where the orbiting body is farthest from the sun. Earth will reach its closest point ...
Yuri Shprits, a space scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, is on a mission to save our planet.
Finding a world like Earth elsewhere in the universe might mean looking for the right kind of solar system. A new discovery sheds light on what composition of planets might be necessary to support ...
IF you’ve got any plans for December 22, 2032, you might want to bring them forward. Because the chance of an ­asteroid the size of a football pitch hitting Earth on that date has just doubled. If ...
A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.
When looking at our solar system, the planets going around the sun seem to be set up in a pretty organized fashion. They are ...