ESA's operational Mars orbiters will be observing the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas during its close encounter with Mars.

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, should it be deflected or blown up? A paper from NASA scientists and ...

Because the known Venus co-orbitals have strong eccentricity, they can move farther away from Venus and closer to Earth, thus becoming easier to see in our sky at twilight, when the Sun is below the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope are unraveling the mysteries of TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized exoplanet 40 ...

All of this went well on the previous Starship test flight August 26, when SpaceX rebounded from four consecutive ...

If you squint, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk want the same thing: a thriving human civilization that survives beyond the next few ...

A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to no warning.

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

SpaceX is inching closer to sending its Starship rocket into low Earth orbit. A newly proposed flight path for the upper ...