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

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

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

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The asteroid was first discovered last year on August 7, 2024. To rule out 2024 PT5 being space junk, scientists at NASA’s ...

As our planet gets less habitable, the idea has popped up of moving to Mars while we give it a good scrub. ‘The Little Prince ...

Mars, the enigmatic Red Planet, has long puzzled scientists with a dramatic geological contrast between its hemispheres, ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.