Wonderful news! Asteroid 2004 BL86, which passed closest to Earth today at a distance of 750,000 miles (1.2 million km),…
When the Dawn mission was in its planning stages, Ceres was considered an asteroid. But in 2006, a year before…
Just sit back and watch the world turn… or should I say, watch the dwarf planet turn in this fascinating animation…
A lot of asteroids pass near Earth every year. Many are the size of a house, make close flybys and…
It's a cornerstone of modern physics that nothing in the Universe is faster than the speed of light (c). However,…
The early Solar System was a shooting gallery. Smaller-body collisions happened far more frequently than we see it today, pockmarking…
A new Avengers movie. A reboot of the Star Wars franchise. The final installment of the Hunger Games. The Martian…
Quick… what’s the only major meteor shower named after a defunct constellation? If you said the January Quadrantids, you’d be…
Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close…
Where did all of our water come from? What might seem like a simple question has challenged and intrigued planetary…