California-based TransAstra is testing an inflatable “Capture Bag” that comes in different sizes and is intended to catch ...
Sixty five million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Earth and ended the age of the dinosaurs. But what if that ...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) praised President Donald Trump’s teased healthcare plan, comparing its effect to the asteroid that ...
NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the Moon on December 22, 2032. Primarily suspected to threaten Earth, the ...
In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS was first detected on July 1, 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). As it approached the Sun, it displayed a subtle non-gravitational acceleration, ...
The object is called 2025 PN7, and it was spotted on Aug. 2, 2025, by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. Even though it was just discovered, earlier data shows it's been in this unusual orbit for ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...
Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the second-fastest known.
The Earth has just added its seventh confirmed quasi-lunar moon. It is 2025 PN7, a small Apollo-type asteroid detected in August solely by its brightness, thanks to the Hawaiian Pan-STARRS 1 telescope ...
Earlier this week, rumors were circulating online that the Earth will have a second moon until 2083. The truth is, the Earth’s orbit does have a new guest, but it isn’t exactly a new moon. In ...