The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

In one violent moment, the Cretaceous world ended. Using geological evidence, fossilized ash layers, and crater data from ...

The Taurids Meteor Shower, which enchants sky watchers every year from late October through November, is soon set to reach its peak. The Taurids are named after the constellation Taurus, the point in ...

Recapping some of the most talked-about news this week from the nation and around the world – in case you missed it.

A whistleblower claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has 'swerved to aim at Earth', putting our planet '0.015° dead center ...

On Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanically active world—you’ll find the mountain Ionian Mons. Its height is estimated at nearly 8 miles. All in all, scientists have discovered more than ...

Is 3I/ATLAS a comet or an alien vessel? Dive into the facts on the interstellar object, the shocking claims of leaked footage ...

When a meteoroid shook the edge of Apollinaris Mons on Mars, it triggered streaks that carved a hundred new scratches on the ...

China's Tianwen-1 Mars probe has captured newly released images of the interstellar object 3I/Atlas during its recent passage ...