Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

At the very beginning of its history, Earth was dry. How did it become a blue planet? A new theory could provide an answer.

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place. One ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

A "super-Earth" located outside our solar system is raising hopes for the possibility of extraterrestrial life, according to findings from the University of Oxford. Scientists believe the ...