A fast-orbiting, 700-metre asteroid discovered within Venus's orbit highlights hidden near-Sun populations and underscores ...

Scientists have discovered asteroid 2025 PN7, a celestial body now identified as a quasi-satellite. This asteroid will orbit ...

Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

Have you ever wondered how long it takes for each planet to orbit the Sun? From Mercury’s blazing 88-day year to Neptune’s ...

Reflect Orbital plans a constellation to enable solar power generation at night, make crops grow better and stronger, ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

THAT’s NO MOON - Earth doesn’t just have one moon; sometimes, it has a companion satellite or “mini-moon.” Discovered on ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, 2025 SC79, orbiting incredibly close to the Sun and at a near-record ...