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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The mission will carry out several tasks in a single launch, including a flyby of asteroid 2016 HO3, sample collection, return and main-belt comet ... from the early solar system, making it ...

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 ...

12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt ... asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system ...

The risk of the 2024 YR4 asteroid ... solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago. There are millions of rocks orbiting between Mars and Jupiter in a region known as the main asteroid belt.