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Less than two weeks after it was discovered, asteroid 2023 DW sits at the top of the "risk list" maintained by the European Space Agency.

International organisations have been working on planetary defence and ways to protect the planet from potential collisions.

X-ray and optical telescopes suggest that an ancient galaxy gobbled up its neighbors and likely lives alone in the distant Universe.

Venus has long been discussed as a former "ocean world" like Mars, but a new study in PNAS shows this era may have been short lived.

Scientists have analysed the perfectly shaped sand dunes which are usually covered by frost

NASA has confirmed they are tracking a new asteroid that's 160ft long and could be set for a collision with Earth in another 23 years, and will continue to monitor its whereabouts

NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI-700 e. TOI-700 e is just over 100 light years from Earth – too far away…

A camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped mysterious "almost perfectly circular" sand dunes on the surface of the planet, leaving scientists baffled

A similar-sized object caused a 12 megaton explosion when it exploded in the atmosphere in 1908