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

Planets, moons, and the quest for life beyond earth As we explore the vast expanse of space, we embark on a journey that ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Moonlight obscures most views of meteorites, so viewing should be better when there is no moon or a crescent rather than a ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

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

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

The Moon, like the Earth, has been bombarded by asteroids and comets since its formation, leaving behind craters of varying sizes. The largest ones are known as basins. The exact timing and intensity ...

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

Earth gained a hidden second moon over the weekend, although it is set to disappear in several weeks. Nearing the end of ...