In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

What would happen if you obtained space-bending abilities and decided to test them out by placing Earth between the two ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

PN7 has been a mysterious space traveler, shadowing our planet for decades undetected in our vast celestial world, until now.

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

Astronomers have discovered a new quasi-moon of Earth, Arjuna 2025 PN7. The asteroid belongs to a family that shares Earth's ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information ...

The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point from Earth in its orbit, at 5:46 A.M. EDT. At that time, our satellite will stand 251,996 miles (405,548 km) away. With the Moon sinking low in the hours ...

Before humans send probes to space to mine for precious metals on asteroids, they could find vast quantities of minerals like platinum on the Moon’s craters, a new study suggests. Minerals like ...

The Moon passes 0.6° south of Scorpius’ alpha star, Antares, at 2 P.M. EDT and sits just to the left of the red giant in the southwest an hour after sunset. You’ll have another hour after that of ...