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 ...

Every year, the moon, Earth's reliable celestial companion for 4.5 billion years, is getting 1.5 inches away. The distance to ...

Apophis will zoom safely past the Earth closer than the orbits of geosynchronous satellites on April 13, 2029. As well as the ...

A massive asteroid, 2025 FA22, will safely pass Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 4.6 million miles. Initially ...

The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

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.

The Moon, Earth's only natural satellite, always draws humanity's gaze with its mysterious presence. It is not only the brightest "lighthouse" in the night sky but also a "spacetime fossil" that ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...

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

Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.