In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

27, 1885, an astronomer made the first known photograph of a meteor. The picture was taken ... Still not enough space? Don't forget to check out our Space Image of the Day, and on the weekends ...

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Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...

Experts believe that the structure formed around 345 million years ago and was likely created by a meteor around 2,000 ... the Aorounga structure taken from space in the late 1990s have also ...

Asteroid hitting the Earth (Representative Image: Canva) Imagine a cosmic treasure chest moving across the vast expanse of space, holding enough wealth to make every person on Earth a billionaire.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the "first asteroid found to have a ring system," according to NASA.

The most powerful telescope launched into space may have shed light on how an asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 came to be. Last year, NASA launched a spacecraft to investigate one of the ...

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

This animation simulates the motion of the hypothetical Taurid meteor swarm through space. As a physicist who researches the risk that comets and asteroids pose to the Earth, I'm aware that this ...