Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, simulations show.

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

"Midnight" the humpback whale is dead after a reported collision with the B.C. Ferries Northern Expedition along the central coast. Kylie Stanton reports.

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 ...

A giant space rock the size of New York's Chrysler Building will make a close pass by Earth Thursday, and it could get even ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

In scientific terms, it is normal for some predictions to fail. Not so much in the how, but in the when. A few years ago, some astronomical experts predicted that an asteroid would ...

ESA says there is no impact risk after refined tracking; the virtual telescope project is streaming the flyby from tuscany.

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

Astronomers discovered a small quasi-moon named 2025 PN7 orbiting near Earth, first observed on August 2, 2025, from Hawaii’s ...