An asteroid discovered in 2019’s orbit has been mapped, revealing it as a Trojan of Saturn, meaning an object with the same ...

The latest X-class solar flare — the most powerful type the sun can produce — exploded from sunspot AR3842 at around 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday (Oct. 3). The flare had a magnitude of at least X9 ...

Among planets in our solar system, only Mars and Mercury are smaller. Barnard b, with a surface temperature around 125ºC, orbits Barnard’s Star in just three Earth days at a distance 20 times closer ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to Earth. The solo star, which is known as Barnard’s star, is a red dwarf which is around 80% smaller than our sun and sits ...

The Oct. 1 flare was the second-most powerful of Solar Cycle 25. The sun welcomed October with a bang, firing off two powerful flares in just over 24 hours. The more recent of the two was an X ...

Morocco has an average winter temperature of around 20C on its south-west coastline ... To truly soak in the sun, west Africa’s Gambia enjoys scorching average temperatures of 34C through ...

The world—dubbed Barnard b—is thought to have about half of the mass of Venus and has such a tight orbit that its year only lasts three Earth days. It is the first to be discovered around the ...

NASA’s Dawn mission, which launched in 2007, became the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies—Vesta and Ceres. It reached Ceres in 2015 and continued orbiting until 2018, providing ...

Then it will stay on its new orbit around the Sun. Mini-moons happen when an asteroid slowly approaches Earth in such a way as to be taken around more by our own planet’s gravity than the ...

When it whizzes by Earth on Sunday, it will be temporarily trapped by our planet's gravity and orbit the globe — but only for about two months. The mini moon will circle the globe for almost 57 ...

On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost ... a similar orbital path around the sun as our own home planet.

Ceres is the largest object in our Solar System’s asteroid belt, and its icy surface hides several small underground water bodies containing salt water. But the most fascinating discovery has been ...