Sci-fi planets like Dune's Arrakis and Star Wars' Tatooine might look cool, but according to NASA they're more fiction than ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our ...
HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...
Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...
Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.
Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a non-threat.