Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

Its immense heat and radiation can be very dangerous, which is why it is good that we are a distance away from it that we are ...

For millennia, humans have asked whether we are alone in the universe, yet the discovery of aliens still eludes us. But if ...

While claims of a “rare alignment” are overblown, you can still see up to six planets in the night sky this weekend. Here's ...

If you find yourself constantly rushing out the door in the mornings without a plan for breakfast or even lunch, you’re not alone. Even if you’re not able to change your busy schedule ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system ... could point to signs of water and life Using computer models of the four outer planets, the team carried out 50,000 simulations ...

Manchester United required another rescue act from Amad as his hat-trick staged a dramatic turnaround win vs Southampton. The away side were denied a penalty in the opening stages after Kyle ...