Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth ... agency 2.8% — when it eventually reaches this part of the solar system on Dec. 22, 2032. Although the asteroid will most likely pass by ...

NASA has been busy observing an asteroid, dubbed Asteroid 2024 YR4, which it fears could be on a path to hit Earth in 2032.

China is preparing to launch the Tianwen-2 space probe into orbit in the first half of this year to collect soil samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3. This announcement was made by the China ...

"But there's much more likelihood that it's okay." Telescopes will refine the asteroid's orbit around the solar system over the coming months, until it travels too far away to observe (it will ...

The director of the Senegalese Space Study Agency has just led the launch of the first Senegalese nanosatellite into space ...

Feb. 18, 2025 — Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the ...

An asteroid capable of flattening a mid-sized ... There's an uncertainty region that spans, right now, the entire Earth-Moon system — which is not to say that we don't know a lot about it.