Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the ...

The object is known as 2025 SC79, and it is 700 meters (2,297 feet) across. It goes around the Sun every 128 days, and it ...

Venus is often known as Earth’s twin because it is the closest planet to Earth in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

Astronomers have identified a rare and unusually fast asteroid racing through the inner solar system. Known as 2025 SC79, the ...

According to one hypothesis, the comet is responsible for giving humans the swastika symbol, thousands of years in the past.

When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But ...

Researchers have found Neptune-like bands of clouds circling the surface of a brown dwarf, an object in between the size of a planet and a star ... following claims that it had been detected on Venus ...

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the ...

Zodiac signs and horoscopes for today’s birthday and Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 light years away that could harbor liquid water. Early data suggests hints of ...

It orbits very close to its star and has no atmosphere. Half of the planet is in permanent daylight ... a geophysicist at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Venus is right next door, ...