We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

2029 Apophis asteroid flyby will be a close encounter with Earth Earth’s gravity may dramatically alter the surface of ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

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A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Some asteroids are substantial enough to possess their own moons. In 1993, the Galileo spacecraft made the groundbreaking discovery of the first asteroid moon. The S-type asteroid Ida has a moon ...

In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5 ... have been discovered to be random pieces of space junk. The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor ...