Many people have probably wondered, are asteroids fragments of original planets? This sounds quite plausible, like a large ...

What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it ...

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

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

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

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

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team ...

Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

Jezero Crater has become one of the most exciting places in the search for signs of past life on Mars. Since landing in 2021, ...