Earth's planetary defences are beginning a two-month observation campaign today to track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS that is ...

Earth dodged a bullet today, when asteroid TU24 passed within 540,000 kilometers of our planet, which is just down the street on a galactic scale. Tomorrow, another asteroid – 2007 WD5 – will zip past ...

A newly identified super-Earth orbiting a nearby star has rapidly climbed to the top of astronomers’ wish lists for worlds ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

At 03:57 CET today, mission controllers at ESOC, ESA’s Space Operations Centre in Germany, confirmed Rosetta’s successful swingby of Mars, a key milestone in the 7.1-thousand-million km journey of ...