Imagine a massive celestial body colliding with Uranus at high speed; this impact could have 'overturned' Uranus, causing its ...

NASA has responded to speculation that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is actually an alien starship preparing to invade Earth.

Learn why the Moon moving away from Earth affects tides and Earth's rotation. Discover this fascinating lunar phenomenon and ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Recently, I came across a news article stating that scientists want to send a spaceship to explore Atlas—not the mountain range we usually talk about, but the "Atlas asteroid" located outside our ...

On Mars, things are a lot more static. It’s a single-plate planet with incredibly slow mixing. When InSight peered into the ...

Saturn will make a particularly brilliant appearance amongst the stars this weekend, according to the Royal Observatory’s night sky highlights for September. It will appear so brightly, that the ...

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

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great ...