Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 was, for a brief time, thought to be on a ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

Late in 2024, astronomers spotted a new near-Earth asteroid named 2024 YR4. By mid-2025, its improved orbit tracking raised ...

Paleontologists at the Canadian Museum of Nature have recently been studying the skeletal remains of a rhinoceros. This might ...

A 700-metre asteroid went undetected near Earth after hiding in the Sun’s glare, raising fresh questions about blind spots in space monitoring.

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

Here's why the astronauts have brushed up on lunar geology, even though they won't land.

Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip ...

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.

The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the planet since 1957 — not a true ...