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

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 ...

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

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 ...

But a new study published in Nature Astronomy shows that even very small asteroids can surprise us—and sometimes explode ...

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

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

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

"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

To make plastic we need to pipe hydrocarbon into refiners, and we make that by combining water and carbon in a chemical lab.

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...