Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our ...

“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...

Earlier this month, Google researchers released a paper about “Project Suncatcher,” the company’s research “moonshot” to ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

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Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

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Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sweeps past Mars as NASA’s orbiters and Perseverance reveal fresh clues about its chemistry and ...

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The next full moon will be the last supermoon of 2025, set to shine for days. Here's when to watch and what to know about ...