It takes the Earth one year to orbit all the way around the sun. But the sun’s path around the Milky Way is much bigger. It ...

The findings also suggest there may be three more exoplanet candidates, in various orbits around the star. Barnard’s star is six light-years away from Earth and is the second-closest stellar ...

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Over time, the meteorites that land on Earth will be able to tell the story of events happening 200 million miles away in ...

It belongs to the Arjuna asteroid belt that follows Earth-like orbits around the sun. "In its orbit around the sun, it sort of sidled up to the Earth very slowly," said Nick Rae, senior planetarium ...

So, Earth has a "new moon," but before you get too excited about a cosmic sidekick, let’s set the record straight. Earth is ...

Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

Earth tends to pull asteroids into partial or full orbits around it regularly before they are flung back out into space. Artist’s impression of asteroid in space (NASA/JPL-Caltech) For instance ...

which usually orbits the sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth. While Earth's primary companion, the moon, has lingered around our planet for around 4 billion years since its ...

It may sound like something out of a sci-fi movie, but Earth's "mini-moon" is here to stay for a couple of months.