The category of rocky planets, also known as terrestrial planets, includes Earth, as well as Mercury, Venus and Mars in our own solar system... READ MORE›
The amusement park named the star, which is about 417 light-years from Earth, after itself Space World... READ MORE›
Scientists have seen black holes killing and swallowing stars... READ MORE›
Our solar system had nine planets until Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, a decision that still stands... READ MORE›
The cigar-shaped body was first spotted in the solar system by researchers on the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii in October, Breakthrough Listen reports... READ MORE›
NASA has nailed an engine test on a spacecraft 13 billion miles away. Last week, ground controllers sent commands to fire backup thrusters on Voyager 1, ou... READ MORE›
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft -- cruising interstellar space billions of miles from Earth -- was back on the right track Friday thanks to thrusters that were f... READ MORE›
Asteroids like Oumuamua enter our solar system about once a year, these scientists said... READ MORE›
NASA scientist David Morrison speaks out on the rumoured end of the world when Planet X, or Nibiru, hits Earth... READ MORE›
David Morrison is a real NASA scientist who studies real planets and makes real discoveries about the real universe... READ MORE›
According to popular imagination, Nibiru, or Planet X, is a hypothetical planet on the edge of the solar system that orbits the sun every 3,600 years... READ MORE›
Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected outside the solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to planet Earth... READ MORE›
At a distance of 11 light-years, Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected yet outside our solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to ours... READ MORE›
It shows that Ross 128 b is more massive than the Earth, with at least 1.35 times our planet's bulk... READ MORE›
At 13 Jupiter masses, this newly discovered objects sits right at the boundary between planet and brown dwarf... READ MORE›
NASA seeks nickname for tiny, icy world on solar system's edge... READ MORE›
It crossed under that plane just outside Mercury's orbit on Sept. 2 before being slung by the sun's gravity into a sharp turn under our solar system... READ MORE›
Those with a telescope could see Uranus all month.A Find Uranus,A theA seventh planet from the sun, by looking into the southeast sky... READ MORE›
Nibiru conspiracy theorist David Meade actually doesn't know when the world will end, several reports have claimed... READ MORE›
Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our solar system, debunking the theory that these only develop around giant planets... READ MORE›
A house-size asteroid will give Earth a near-miss Thursday, passing harmlessly inside the moon's orbit while giving experts a rare chance to rehearse for a... READ MORE›
Human activities now rival the great forces of nature in driving changes to the Earth system, the paper said... READ MORE›
Its gravity would've messed up the orbits of the inner planets, the Earth, Venus, Mars, probably would've stripped the moon away completely, he said... READ MORE›
Before this discovery, astronomers had one solar system with four rocky planets to study--Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars... READ MORE›
Various people are 'predicting' that world will end on September 23 when another planet collides with Earth, say Nasa... READ MORE›
Users on the online astronomy crowdsourcing interface Planet Hunters discovered a peculiar light pattern between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations a few years ago... READ MORE›
A 15-year-old intern in England has discovered a new planet, the same size as Jupiter, while carrying out work experience at a university... READ MORE›
This is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's JPL mission control for Nasa's Voyager spacecraft... READ MORE›
New horizons probe eyes pluto for historic encounter... READ MORE›
The likelihood of any known potentially hazardous asteroid striking the planet within the next 100 years stands at 0.01 the space agency said in a statement... READ MORE›
The asteroid, known as 2012 TC4,A could come as close as 4,200 miles to Earth, NASA said... READ MORE›
Unlike us, tardigrades -- the world's most indestructible species -- will survive until the sun dies, according to a new Oxford University study released Friday... READ MORE›
If 16 Psyche did start out as a protoplanet, as Professor Elkins-Tanton expects, it would have had a run of very bad luck... READ MORE›
A rocky Earth-sized planet that circles a small, nearby star could be the most important world ever found beyond the solar system, astronomers say... READ MORE›
NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small, it said... READ MORE›
So Kepler could in theory support plant life, but what about alien life?... READ MORE›
Image courtesy of NASA JPL-Caltech and Space Science Institute Another world with an ocean is one of Jupiter's moons, Europa... READ MORE›
Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be the best place in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to NASA... READ MORE›
Videos emerged this week of an object apparently hitting Jupiter... READ MORE›
The discovery was made by astronomers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and San Diego State University using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope... READ MORE›
Dr Vokoch said With recent detection of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of other stars, we have natural targets for such transmission projects... READ MORE›
Is there life on jupiter's moons? juice may hold the key... READ MORE›
Rocky asteroids vary in size and are mainly found orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter... READ MORE›
That's the rumor that has gone viral now here are the facts it said in a press release entitled NASA There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth ... READ MORE›
Jupiter's Great Red Spot ready for close-up as Juno spacecraft goes 'screaming' past... READ MORE›
Keele University described Wagg's discovery as a hot Jupiter'' planet that tend to maintain tight orbits around its stars... READ MORE›
New Horizons has provided more accurate information on the size and scope of Pluto... READ MORE›
The fourth asteroid this year buzzed the Earth about midday Thursday, passing between the Earth and moon... READ MORE›
AP -- For the first time, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a single nearby star -- and these new worlds could hold life... READ MORE›
When Nasa's New Horizons mission was launched at the start of 2006 Pluto was a planet but it's not any more... READ MORE›
The Earth could be plunged into a 'mini ice age' in just 15 years from now according to new research which looks at the Sun's activity cycle... READ MORE›
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