Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

A building-sized asteroid, 2025 FA22, is set to pass by Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 523,000 miles.

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 ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft sometimes lies directly between the sun and Earth, making it ideally placed to analyse powerful ...

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A massive ejection from the sun has unleashed multiple solar storms in Earth's magnetic field, potentially messing with ...

NASA confirms that the number of discovered exoplanets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, marking a major milestone in space research.

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how many of these events ...

Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...

An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is approaching Earth at a sprightly 24,136 miles per hour—and will be at its closest to us in two days' time. The space rock—dubbed "2025 FA22"—is a sizeable 520 ...

China is planning to send a mission to hit an asteroid and change its orbit with a spacecraft to lower the risk of it ...