Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took ...
A sweeping new study has pulled back the curtain on the chaotic early lives of young stars, revealing that stellar infancy is far more turbulent and variable than previously thought. Over ten ...
Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our ...
WASHINGTON >> NASA released fresh images today of the interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is ...
NASA released fresh images on Wednesday of the interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a ...
NASA is set on Wednesday to release new images of an interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet probably even older than our ...
The China National Space Administration plans to launch the asteroid sample-return mission TianWen-2 with the target being ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...
If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...
After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...