The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

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

NASA/ Johns Hopkins APL After analysing data from Nasa’s Dart mission, scientists concluded that it had successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit (Credit: NASA/ Johns Hopkins APL) When it ...

The asteroid Vesta has about 28% of the mass of Ceres ... Main belt asteroids are the most common asteroid and are found in a belt in orbit around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

By the year 2100, the “satellite carrying capacity” of the most popular low-orbit regions could decline by 50 to 66 percent due to the impacts of these emissions, according to the study ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the ...

In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 meters) and an average wavelength (from one crest of a wave to the next) of 1,970 ...