The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

But what's an asteroid, I hear you ask? Let me show you. Well, our solar system is a messy place. There aren't just planets out there orbiting the sun, there are also chunks of rock, ice ...

Crisis averted – it’s looking extremely unlikely Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a collision course with Earth. Initially, there were fears the 55-metre ball of rock – weighing tens of thousands of tonnes and ...

Odin will take 300 days to catch up with the asteroid one million miles from Earth. It will take close-up images of the surface to confirm it is metallic. Image: Odin's solar arrays will power the ...

NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. While its odds had briefly risen to a record high of 3.1%, they have now dropped to near ...

NASA gave the all-clear Monday on an asteroid that previously had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2032. The asteroid was first discovered in late 2024 and reported when it surpassed the 1% ...