Asteroids, comets, and meteors are all small solar system objects, but they differ in composition and behaviour.

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

In an international study led by Western University and Lowell Observatory, scientists describe a pioneering, integrative ...

Something’s not quite right about the moons of Mars. They are too small — Phobos is 17 miles across, and Deimos is a mere ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Asteroids not only represent a potential threat to humanity, they also offer great opportunities, especially for the future.

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...