In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims look at how close we really are extracting rare minerals ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...
Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...
Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...
The asteroid, which is approximately twice the size of Taj Mahal, belongs to the Apollo group of near-Earth objects (NEOs) ...