Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Don’t space out or you’ll miss it. A once-in-a-generation asteroid broader than the width of Manhattan will be passing by the Earth — and there’s a chance you can see it for yourself.

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

YW9 and 2024 PT5, will pass close to Earth on January 9, 2025. NASA confirms they are not a threat. The asteroids have been ...

The early Earth was an extreme place. Asteroids pommeled the surface. Volcanoes spewed lava and carbon dioxide. The thick, ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued a warning that two giant asteroids are set to have a close ...

positioned between Mars and Jupiter at an average distance of around 250 million km from Earth. Read further on Dynamite News: Gembloux : The majority of known asteroids orbit inside the main asteroid ...

NASA has identified two asteroids, 2024 YH and 2024 YD3, set to approach Earth on December 26. Though these "near misses" will pass millions of miles away, they offer scientists an opportunity to ...

Studying low Earth orbit with Space Rider The European ... NASA's Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun ...

However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place. One leading idea is that space rocks such as comets and asteroids delivered water to the Earth ...