With a friend in the White House, the tech billionaire's extraterrestrial ambitions are ready for lift-off - but not ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

The Alinda asteroid will be visible with binoculars in a 'once in a decade' event as it brushes past Earth, with its return ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

A big asteroid, the size of the Empire State Building, called 2024 WY70 is on a collision course with Earth this weekend.

Typically, asteroids - like the one depicted in this artist's concept - originate from the main asteroid belt between the ...

An asteroid smacking into Mars could eject debris high above the Red Planet. If Deimos and Phobos formed from debris resulting from an asteroid collision on Mars, they must be younger than the Red ...

The first full moon of the year will glide through the sky Monday night. For lucky stargazers in some parts of the world, it ...

The UAE is developing a space craft to land on an asteroid belt beyond Mars.

You could also take a shortcut and find the planet Mars, which is also visiting Gemini now. But be prepared: Spotting asteroid 877 Alinda will be an Easter egg hunt. "It's a magnitude of +9 ...