Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

They assumed a 2.5 km radius comet made of pure water ice coming in perpendicular to the exoplanet's surface, delivering water and thermal energy onto an Earth-like atmosphere of the exoplanet ...

Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet, last seen in 1986, leads to two major meteor showers every year including the Eta Aquarids. When this meteor shower ...

A house-sized asteroid flew past Earth while you were asleep. The space rock designated 2025 KF made its closest approach at ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

Pieces of debris coming from a famous comet are expected to appear fast as they leave glowing trails across the sky early Sunday morning.

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for to two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

Halley's Comet holds a special place of significance and popularity among both the general public and the astronomy community ...

It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and at all ...

Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer able to resist gravity’s ...