Right now, we're zooming through space at incredible speeds, so why aren't we dizzy or flying off into space?  An expert ...

The Earth's Moon is its only one, but scientists recently discovered a new celestial body that will be staying near the ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the 'quasi-moon.' ...

Could a passing star be on a collision course with our solar system and, eventually, Earth? It’s difficult to know if such an outcome is likely. Recently, researchers have found the Milky Way likely ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

Scientists like to refer to our planet as residing in the “Goldilocks zone,” where it’s neither too hot nor too cold, and just the right distance away from the Sun to support life. But in the classic ...

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"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers away." Half a dozen fragments of the moon may briefly orbit Earth at any ...

Venus could make a brief appearance this weekend as it passes between the Earth and the sun. Just be warned: It won't be easy to spot in the sun's glow, according to astronomers. The orbit Venus takes ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look everywhere all at once." On Wednesday (Aug. 13), NASA announced that the ...