The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

A control team at the ESA's European Space Operations Center powered down all of Gaia's subsystems and sent it into a "retirement orbit" around the Sun ... from its team on Earth," The ESA ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 — the one that caused a stir earlier this year due to its potential collision course with Earth — has ... direction to its orbit around the sun — offers a key clue ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth ... to its orbit around the sun — offers ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Real-life asteroids don't come hurtling toward Earth from the outer reaches of space the way they do in the movies. They tend to orbit elliptical paths around the sun, passing within sight of our ...