China's asteroid sample-return probe has closed to within 20 kilometers of 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, kicking off its science ...

"The new planet is 100 times fainter than Beta Pictoris b, the famous planet in the same system, making it the faintest ...

Scientists have detected evidence of landslides on Pluto for the first time. A paper published in the journal Icarus reports ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

"All these discoveries from pioneering missions like Voyager and New Horizons teach us how little we know about what lies ...

Earth is teleported far into the future, where the Sun becomes a red giant, then fades into a white dwarf, and eventually ...

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Mars is sold as humanity’s next home, but this video argues the real long-term prize may be Ceres — a 585-mile dwarf planet ...

NASA has been tracking a bus-sized asteroid that is zipping past Earth on Friday at a whopping 45,522 mph. Known as 2026 KC1, the space rock is estimated to be about 27 feet across and makes its ...

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its cameras captured a rare perspective of the red planet along the way. The Psyche mission, ...

It’s been almost three years since American space agency NASA launched a mission to a potential planetesimal located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the spacecraft at its ...

An asteroid recently discovered by Nasa officials is being monitored after passing close to Earth on Monday. According to officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the asteroid 2026 JH2 is about ...