There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Spotting one or two of the planets in our solar system is well worth a good skywatch, but seeing (almost) all of them in a ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have found an exoplanet – a planet outside our own solar system – more than six ...

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

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Edward Bloomer, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, explains that this discovery has more to do with the observation of orbits of other planets. "In about 1604 ...