NASA has added four new teams to study the Moon, near-Earth asteroids and other components of the solar system.

With increasing pollution on earth and human desire to make space travel a commercial affair, the junkyard is set for a major risk where debris travels at velocities approaching 8 kilometres per second-roughly 28,900 kmh.

A Belgian-led team was able to spy these planets using space and ground-based telescopes as they passed in front of their host, a red dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1, NBC News reported.

The collision of an asteroid with Earth can have devastating impact but a team of researchers is working out how to deflect the path of an asteroid to avoid the apocalypse.

The year 2016 was the hottest on record, with an average temperature 1.1 degrees Centigrade (2 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in pre-industrial times, the World Meteorological Organisation said.

The event will be witnessed by the end of this week but the mystery object isn't expected to make an appearance until February.

Nearly 500-million years ago, the oxygen level showed a rapid rise apparently due to a fossil fuel formation process that made life possible on earth, claimed a new study.

Scientists have discovered a brand new planetary system with a host star similar to earth’s sun, but its unusual characteristics show that it has eaten some of its planets.

John Glenn the first American to orbit the Earth has died at 95. An extraordinary man, Glenn was the last surviving member of the original Mercury astronauts.