"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt," ...
Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with ...
NASA's NEOWISE mission contributed to planetary defense efforts with its research to catalog near-Earth objects.
Comet 67P's water has the same molecular signature as Earth's oceans, suggesting it may have contributed to Earth's water ...
The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects—some of which could strike the ...
Barber of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published their findings on the new planet in the journal Nature ...
NASA is gearing up to have the International Space Station slowly lower its orbit, starting in 2030, until it burns through ...
The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.
Scientists say cometary dust affects interpretation of spacecraft measurements, reopening the case for comets as potential ...
NASA, IBM, and Forschungszentrum Jülich have released an expanded version of the open-source Prithvi Geospatial artificial ...
A "harmless" asteroid burned up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky ...
A small asteroid raced toward Earth on Tuesday morning, creating a fireball across the skies above eastern Russia, according ...