XS3, an 84-foot space rock, will safely pass Earth on Dec 18 at 2,080,000 miles. NASA assures no danger, offering a key ...

Earth is a measly 93 million miles from the sun ... Scientists are eager to know how these planets evolve, as it would ...

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain on Mars.

Dark comets are a newly defined type of near-Earth object that resemble asteroids but behave like comets, exhibiting dynamic ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...

While these ancient asteroids posed no threat, their close encounters highlight the importance of ongoing asteroid monitoring ...

How Close Will It Come? The asteroid will approach Earth from a distance of 2,080,000 miles. This is over 16 times the gap ...

Indeed it is. According to the UNCCD, the transformation over the three studied decades is leading to loss of GDP, forced ...

For spectators, total solar eclipses – such as the one that dazzled millions in April across North America – represent ...

Researchers have doubled the number of known dark comets, identifying two distinct types: larger ones in the outer solar ...

Recent studies show comet dust influenced earlier measurements of water’s origins on Earth, challenging previous findings.