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 full moon this week will be a spectacular Beaver Supermoon—the last in a series of four supermoons this year. Here's how ...

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

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

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

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

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.

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 ...

The beaver moon, of course, is named for the animal itself. Beavers are the largest living rodents in North America and are ...

Proba-3 is such an ambitious mission that it needs more than one single spacecraft to succeed. In order for Proba-3's ...

Last week Elon Musk said in one of his 100-plus daily tweets that “This is just a very basic first step. Earth and Mars will ultimately need greater than petabit/sec connectivity.” Petabit/second ...

Footage from camera traps in the undergrowth showed small mammals, such as rodents and armadillos, seemed to avoid predators ...