In 2022, both Elon Musk and NASA issued serious warnings about the potential threat of a massive asteroid on a collision ...

KX8, will closely approach Earth on June 4, 2025. NASA is monitoring the space rock, which is about 36 meters in diameter. It ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

There’s a new object in the distant reaches of our solar system, and it might just offer clues to a long-standing cosmic ...

NASA’s planetary defence programme has kept a keen eye on five asteroids classed as ‘potentially hazardous’, making their ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...