A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

The asteroid is currently located in the constellation of Lynx, at a distance of more than 1.9 million miles (3.2 million ...

Astronomers tracking the skies around our planet have picked up two very different cosmic companions: a vast interstellar ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

An international team led by the Universities of Geneva (UNIGE) and Montreal published the first results today from the NIRPS spectrograph installed on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Live Science reports on Jupiter’s opposition on January 10, 2026, explaining what it means, how bright Jupiter will appear, where to find it in the sky, and how to see the planet and its four main ...