The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of planets around a distant star, shedding light on our own ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

M. McClure et al./Cover Images Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a ...

A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii ...

In a cosmic first, astronomers have captured the birth of rocky planets around a baby sun-like star 1,370 light-years away.