Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun will ...

The astronomers told us this was the most likely outcome: a "city killer" asteroid that once had a better than 3% chance of striking Earth in 2032 is no longer a concern. The near-Earth object 2024 ...

The TRAPPIST-1 system, home to seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a red dwarf star, has long been a target for astronomers studying potentially habitable exoplanets. Among these, TRAPPIST-1 d stood ...

As telescopes have become more powerful, we’ve been finding tons of “exoplanets”—planets orbiting faraway stars. One such planet, known as exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d, has intrigued astronomers looking for ...

What role can the relationship between oxygen (O 2) and ozone (O 3) in exoplanet atmospheres have on detecting biosignatures? This is what a study submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...

(Reuters) - NASA's deep space explorer Osiris-Rex flew on Monday to within a dozen miles of its destination, a skyscraper-sized asteroid believed to hold organic compounds fundamental to life as well ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall has been discovered that could strike Earth in 2032. It’s triggered a rare warning by the International Asteroid Warning Network, which ...

A new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core ...