"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Apophis will make its closest to Earth in 2029, giving astronomers ... or even eliminate other bodies orbiting the asteroid (rocks, satellites, or rings).” With his team, he analyzed the ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

DART deliberately crashed a spacecraft into that asteroid, aiming to change its orbit around a larger asteroid, Didymos. That ...

Turns out, there’s a lot more floating around the planet Saturn than those famous rings. Space scientists announced last week they’ve discovered Saturn has 128 more moons, for a total of 274, far more ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

Earth' planet named HD 20794 d, which could have conditions suitable for lifeThe planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits within the habitable zone of a star similar to the ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...