There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

Can Mars become a second Earth? Explore the science, challenges, and future of terraforming Mars for human colonization.

A massive asteroid heads toward Earth with increasing impact probability for 2032. NASA deploys the James Webb Telescope to assess this potential city-killer.

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

In recent years, humanity has visited several near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), including Ryugu (Hayabusa2) and Didymos (DART).

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The asteroid poses no threat to the moon or Earth. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet ...

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

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

China plans to launch the asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, marking the country's first mission to collect samples ...