An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...
A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.
The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...
It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...
NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one ... 4.6 million miles from Earth’s orbit around the sun — are discovered every year ...
There’s a final Super Moon this coming weekend – it’s the last in a sequence of four. First, we need some background as to ...
A potentially hazardous asteroid is defined as one being about 460-feet wide (building-size) with orbits that bring them within 4.6 million miles of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. “A ...
is one that has an orbit intersecting the Earth's orbit around the Sun by less than 0.05 astronomical units (1 AU is the distance to the Sun), that's just over 4.5 million miles. It also has to ...
A diagram shows its orbit around Earth, the sun and several other planets nearer the sun in the Solar System. NASA tracks close approaches and calculates the odds of those space rocks ...
Such an object with less than 0.25 eccentricity (a roughly ... Even tiny pieces of debris zipping around in LEO can be hazardous to spacecraft, making low Earth orbit inaccessible if the problem ...
For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon ... rocky object that orbits the sun. Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn posted a simulation to X of what the asteroid's ...