Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

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 ...

An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth—a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

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 ...

In recent years, scientists have focused their search on temperate, Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars ... zone of the closest star to the Sun. This milestone shifted attention to stars ...

There are over 13,000 satellites orbiting the Earth with more ... if someone told you that there were 13,000 cars driving around on the surface of Earth, would you be worried about it?

A California startup wants to beam extra sunlight to Earth orbiting mirrors, but some are skeptical about whether the physics ...

Yuri Shprits, a space scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, is on a mission to save our planet.