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

It’s as if an invisible hand meticulously arranged the moon's rotation to deliberately conceal its far side from our view on ...

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

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

Through a series of 28 pictures, astronomers learned the asteroid makes a full spin every five hours and is a " contact ...

New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

"The canonical standard solar radius we have been using for over 100 years ... we don't know what that figure is until it's measured by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems group's ...

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 ...

Having scooped up some asteroid material from 162173 Ryugu in 2018, which was returned to Earth in 2020, Hayabusa2 was sent ...

Over the past decade, the Mayan calendar has been subjected to close examination and intense debate. Could an ancient ...

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