Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

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NOAA's new Compact Coronagraph, CCOR-1, onboard the GOES-19 satellite, has begun transmitting its first images, revealing ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Since Uranus' orbit is exceptionally slow, orbiting the sun about once every 84 Earth years, it'll be mostly in the same spot it was this year when Earth comes around again next year. The next time ...

An astronomer takes us on a tour of the universe to learn about the birth of stars and planets and how they get their spin.

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

The northern lights may put on a dazzling display over the next couple of years as the sun enters its solar maximum, a period ...