Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

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

NASA has estimated that the metals in these asteroids could be worth as much as $10 billion per person, and mining the richest ten asteroids could yield $1.5 trillion. However, the actual extraction ...

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample. Four days later, it ...

NASA has launched the "rock and roll with NASA challenge," inviting inventors, researchers and companies to design the next ...

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

Researchers who examined data from Perseverance found that the rocks contained organics that could have been the precursors ...

The mini asteroid 2025 RJ2 passed close to Earth on September 15, 2025, and came even closer to the Moon early on September 16. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has stated that ...

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 ...

Find out when the next full Moon will light up the night sky. Discover its phases and mysteries with ExtremeTech’s guide.

NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...