The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

While you’re reading this, the universe is basically throwing the most epic crash party imaginable, with galaxies, stars, and planets smashing into each other at speeds that would make “The Fast and ...

Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday, according to NASA. The largest planet in our solar system, the gas giant will be at opposition, meaning Earth is directly between ...

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

A mission to Jupiter launched over a decade ago is about to complete its work with a fiery plunge into the planet’s depths sometime this month. NASA’s Juno orbiter spacecraft reached Jupiter in 2016, ...

"We consider this phenomenon as a promising candidate to explain the fact that the solar activity is much more benign than that of other sun-like stars." A new study suggests that the planets in our ...