A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists.

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

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It’s been nearly 2 centuries since a planet was discovered in the solar system. But now scientists think they’ve uncovered ...

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

These eight shows didn’t just entertain—they planted seeds of curiosity, empathy, and wonder. They blurred the line between ...

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds for life existing on other planets just skyrocketed. NASA’s stoic ...

On Mars, things are a lot more static. It’s a single-plate planet with incredibly slow mixing. When InSight peered into the ...

For September 2025, the full moon, the Harvest Moon, occurs on September 7. It is a total lunar eclipse, but on the other ...

Saturn will rise less than 5 degrees to the right of the 96%-lit lunar disk as the sun sets on Sept. 8, below the stars ...

The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...