A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

New proposed space missions, led by the University of Leicester, will study stellar impacts on planets and Earth’s ...

Jupiter" exoplanet called 2M1207b, precisely 20 years ago this week. This was the first direct visual confirmation of a world ...

When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

ISRO Venus Orbiter Mission, a Rs 1,236cr project, will explore Venus's environment & understand its transformation from a ...

Scientists have used data from a long-retired NASA Dawn spacecraft to solve the mystery surrounding the origins of the ...

This video explores the key characteristics of each planet within our solar system. Suitable for teaching science at KS1 and ...

The mother planet’s immense gravity pulls and pushes ... NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute Every 30 years or so, a planetary-scale hurricane brews in Saturn’s atmosphere.

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.