Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...
A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...
No, Earth will not have "two moons until 2083," but asteroid 2025 PN7 has joined Earth's orbital path, with the tiny fleet of space rocks set to trail Earth's orbit until 2083 before the sun pulls it ...
A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance to the moon. The asteroid, called 2025 TP5, sailed by our planet at 4:09 p.m ...
The largest and oldest crater on the moon did not form as we initially suspected, a new study suggests. The findings hint that a specific region of the lunar surface could be more scientifically ...
"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." When it comes to saving Earth from a ...
China has imposed its most stringent rare earth export controls yet just days before a scheduled meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping at the end of October 2025, controlling over 90% of ...
So, what do we know about which planets emerged early, and which ones developed later on? Despite advanced techniques like dating organic materials from space, going on multiple visits to the moon, ...
NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...