"Even with just early, engineering-quality data, Rubin discovered 11,000 asteroids and measured more precise orbits for tens of thousands more," Ari Heinze, who helped build the software that detected ...

The astronauts said they had lost track of which day it is on Earth on their transit to the moon. As Day 4 dawned on the ...

For years, the future of space mining has been framed around asteroids drifting through the Solar System. But this episode ...

Exciting planetary action takes place this month. Venus and Uranus vie for attention and lie close to each other in late ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Brett Joseph Cohen was manning the only meteorite stall at the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society‘s annual ...

New analyzes carried out by a Japanese team and unveiled Monday in “Nature Astronomy” show that the samples in fact contain ...

Brett Joseph Cohen has visited Ohio in recent weeks, finding pieces of a meteor that crossed the skies of northwestern ...

Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might ...

A fast-moving 2026 FF6 will pass close to Earth, but if it poses no danger, why are scientists still tracking it so closely?

The Artemis crew won’t land on the moon this time or even orbit it, but the out-and-back journey will take them thousands of miles deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts ventured.

A fast-moving asteroid, 2026 FR2, will pass Earth at a “close” distance, but if it poses no danger, why are scientists still ...

In echoes of the film Armageddon - when a team are sent to touch down on an asteroid and blow it up - scientists hope to send ...