A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

After overcoming significant obstacles, NASA’s $20 Million Mission to the “God of Chaos” Asteroid is ready for launch. This ...

Though NASA confirms that 3I/ATLAS poses no immediate threat to Earth, its unusual trajectory and behaviour have stirred ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

Astronomers have discovered an alien world that defies every planetary rule with its massive size, low density, and tilted ...

The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...