Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.