For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

Asteroid 99942 Apophis is a near-Earth object (NEO ... the uncertainty in Apophis’ orbit has collapsed from hundreds of ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Setrusumab receives Breakthrough Therapy designation from the FDACash of $80.5 million as of September 30, 2024, expected to fund operations into ...

And there are still more meteor showers left between now and New Year's, with at least one fireball event happening at all ...

Asteroid 2024 UQ impacted Earth above the Pacific Ocean. The space rock was about 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It was detected by ...

November brings sky watchers brilliant views, with the Northern Taurids and Leonid meteor showers peaking this week and a full supermoon in between.

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...