The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon oribiting about 239,000 miles away. However, ...

Something called a "quasi-moon" was discovered in August, and now many are wondering if we should count our new neighbor as a ...

Unlike the moon with which we are familiar, which is 2,159 miles wide and located about 239,000 miles away, according to NASA ...

No, the Earth does not have two moons, stressed Dr Alfredo Carpineti, a science writer for IFLScience. Dr Carpineti, the ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

It's probably a comet, but it might be some sort of ancient alien spacecraft or probe. What's for sure is that the mystery surrounding an object known as 3I/ATLAS is becoming both more and ...

A small asteroid named 2024 PN7 is moving close to Earth, sparking false claims about a second moon — here’s what scientists actually say.

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news in July when it was confirmed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. One infamous theory even posited that the interstellar interloper, estimated to be ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.