Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They’ve made progress finding these asteroids that orbit the Sun and come to within 1.3 ...

DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: ...

Using computer simulations, the researchers uncovered a scenario in which an ancient asteroid impact briefly amplified that field, just long enough for nearby rocks to capture and record its magnetic ...

Over at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province, a CZ-6A launched Yaogan 40 Group 02 into polar orbit on ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

The Kinetica-1 rocket launched Wednesday for the first time since a failure doomed its previous attempt to reach orbit in ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

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One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.