The newly identified three-body system has a problem, and it’s not aliens—it’s that in about 20 million years, the stars are ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet ...

Research suggests the Earth captured the Moon from space, rather than forming the rocky satellite from collision particles ...

Orbiting Barnard's star, the nearest solo star to Earth, the world is too hot to be habitable—a scorching 257 degrees ...

A team of astronomers has used the Very Large Telescope to discover a humble planet orbiting Barnard's star, one of the ...

Barnard's star is a red dwarf, the smallest type of regular star and much smaller and less luminous than our sun. At about 6 ...

The exoplanet was discovered while searching for a hypothesized earth-like planet believed to be three times larger than ...

Rather than forming from an ancient collision between Earth and another planet, the moon may have been snatched from another ...

The Ward Beecher Planetarium at YSU is reopening this week. It had been closed for reconstruction since a Jan. 8, 2023, fire.

The world—which orbits Barnard's Star, just six light-years from us—has a year that lasts barely three Earth days.

Lonely No Longer Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered that Barnard's star, the closest single ...

How did the Moon form? Was it from a collision, as has been the longstanding theory, or could it have been captured by the ...