About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

SKYWATCH: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery, just inside Jupiter’s orbit, of Kohoutek, a comet synonymous ...

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 ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

Europa, Jupiter’s frozen moon, is one of the most promising places in the solar system to harbor life, with a vast hidden ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

“Based on the Juno radio occultations, we find that the size of Jupiter is smaller, more oblate, because at the equator, the ...

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

Ten events that would unfold if gravity suddenly vanished, beginning with the effects on our bodies and ending with the unraveling of the universe itself.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Police have identified the motorcyclist killed after a crash in north Phoenix on Friday morning. Phoenix police were called out around 11:30 a.m. to the area of 64th Street and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Things soon go from bad to worse. Other creatures exploit the chaos and disruption to their ...