Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

However, because these planetary giants take so long to orbit, they remain in a particular sign much longer as well. Each ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named ...

Because this planet is relatively close to Earth and orbits a bright star, it is a perfect target for future telescopes.