The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency ...

A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans exist.

From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the sky. Yet once I follow that intuition into orbit and beyond, it quickly ...