On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Had countless science fiction stories of asteroids discovered on a collision course with Earth ... quipped Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary science who studies asteroids, in an ...

Planet position forms the base that sets the mechanics of astrology in motion. The planetary position gives the degree, minutes and seconds of the Zodiac over which celestial bodies are transiting at ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission's first trove of scientific data, crucial ...

Scientists scanning the Moon’s lunar rugged surface have made an unexpected discovery—two enormous canyons, each plunging 2.2 ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...