The study of planets beyond the solar system has reached an unprecedented milestone, with over 5,700 confirmed exoplanets.

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

The risk of a football pitch-sized asteroid striking Earth has doubled to 2.3 per cent in just one week - placing it at the top of both Nasa and the European Space Agency's risk registers. The ...

A new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers suggests that unpredictable stars could be distorting our ...

The newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR is being taken seriously by scientists at NASA who say it's got a legit shot at ...

If you’ve ever seen an elephant or a giraffe up close, you know those animals can seem massive, but would you believe that ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

A large asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA and the ...

ST. LOUIS PARK – Imagine Lake Michigan. Drop it onto southeast Texas. “That is the size and the scope of the flooding we’re talking about” in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, said ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...