Recently, scientists discovered a number of new comets, two of which will be passing by Earth in October. Here's everything ...

Comets SWAN and Lemmon will both swing by Earth and appear bright in the sky near the end of October. Here’s how to see them.

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, ...

For centuries, space rocks have fascinated us. Space and its elements have always been mysterious. Astronomy is riddled with complex jargon that many of us don’t understand. However, we often keep ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

An asteroid about the size of a small building zoomed past Earth unnoticed by astronomers last week, coming as close to the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (RAMSES) mission to the Apophis ...

Main-belt comets (MBCs) and active asteroids represent a fascinating intersection of cometary and asteroidal physics. These bodies, residing within the main asteroid belt, occasionally exhibit ...

Event: Small asteroid 2023 CX1 lost 98% of kinetic energy in a fraction of a second when it entered Earth's atmosphere on ...

Eugene Shoemaker and the impact paradigm in earth and planetary science ; Eugene Shoemaker- bibliography of impact papers / A. Glikson -- Shoemaker impact structure in western Australia / F. Pirajno ...