NASA has issued an alert about an impending asteroid, one as large as a skyscraper, that is on a trajectory towards our ...

Two moons orbit Mars, and one of them may be on a path to extinction. However, will this prediction actually come to pass? Here's more about what's happening.

Researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology claim that analysis of Mars' composition supports the idea that it was originally formed in the asteroid belt, and then migrated to the inner solar ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Let’s begin by reviewing some astronomical “history”: Han Solo and his rebel cohorts Leia Organa, Chewbacca, and C-3PO are nestled uncomfortably together in the Millennium Falcon’s cockpit while their ...

Here, the 'ice volcano' does not erupt molten rock, but rather 'ice magma' formed from a mixture of water ice, liquid brine, ...

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

The unusual behaviour of the 'very common' asteroid has sparked worries over our preparedness for future impact.