The asteroid will pass at a distance of 6.68 million kilometres from Earth, which is roughly 17 times closer than the distance between Earth and the Moon. Astronomers consider such proximity a close ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached a scientifically thrilling region on Mars called Krokodillen, where some of the planet’s oldest rocks may hold vital clues about early Martian environments — ...

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

MH4, nearly three football fields long, will sweep past Earth on May 24, 2025. Its considerable size and speed have drawn the ...

By late February, experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had analyzed new data submitted by astronomers worldwide. The ...

The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about impacts of ...

Scientists have uncovered fascinating new details about the internal structures of both the moon and the asteroid Vesta using ...

NASA’s latest gravitational data model of the Moon generated a litany of discoveries from ancient volcanoes to navigational ...

While asteroids are more easily discovered with optical telescopes, radar images shine when it comes to details.