The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

On Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanically active world—you’ll find the mountain Ionian Mons. Its height is estimated at nearly 8 miles. All in all, scientists have discovered more than ...

A whistleblower claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has 'swerved to aim at Earth', putting our planet '0.015° dead center ...

Omega stands out in Mass Effect 2 as the best planet, with the nightclub Afterlife and its uniquely gritty, immersive ...

The moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...

Tianwen 1 has spotted the solar system's latest interstellar intruder from Mars orbit. China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has ...