The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

Earth wobbles on its axis like a spinning top, a motion called precession. This wobble takes about 26,000 years to complete one full circle. Different stars have served as the North Star throughout ...

A comet named “Devil” has revealed an important clue about the origin of water on Earth. Researchers recently discovered that water on Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, a rare galactic phenomenon known for its ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day ...

Tiny pieces of glass found scattered across Australia have revealed evidence of a previously unknown giant asteroid impact. This discovery centers on a new type of tektite, a natural glass formed when ...