A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

The European Space Agency's upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

A full moon will occur Monday evening, Oct. 6, in Washington state. October's full moon is known as the Harvest Moon, and it's also one of three "supermoons" that will occur before the end of the year ...

Florida's surrounding waters are on the move! A low-pressure system over the Gulf and its stationary front stretching across Florida are churning the Gulf waters, making them hazardous for boaters and ...

October’s full moon is a supermoon, treating Californians to a dazzling view in which the moon will appear especially large and bright. This month's moon is known as the Harvest moon (but this name ...

Sept. 25 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of more than two dozen Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit early Thursday from Central Florida. The rocket launched at 4:36 a.m.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...

Researchers from Spain have discovered a kind of second moon orbiting around Earth. Known as Apollo asteroid 2025 PN7, it was detected by the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii on August 2nd, 2025.

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...