Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...
You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...
About 66 million years ago, a city-sized asteroid struck Earth, creating a 100-mile-wide crater in Mexico and causing the ...
The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...
A mini-moon will happen again in 2029; that one WILL be visible to the naked eye. The asteroid Apophis will come within ...
Earth is getting another “mini” moon this month, and a University of Iowa astronomer said the school bus-sized meteor ...
The infamous "God of Chaos" asteroid could be tipped onto a collision course with Earth, scientists have warned. The asteroid ...
The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.
A stadium-sized asteroid is passing relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, NASA announced. Its distance from Earth and its ...
A stadium-sized asteroid named 2024 ON is expected to pass by Earth at high speed on September 17, 2024, as per a warning ...
Earth will get a second moon, but only for a couple of months. Here's everything you need to know about this cosmic ...
The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.