A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation on the distant retrograde orbit (DRO) in ...

Neptunes, which are exoplanets whose size is between Earth and Neptune, teach astronomers about exoplanet formation and evolution? This is wha | Space ...

In the 2009 two-part miniseries Meteor (streaming now on Peacock), an asteroid breaks up and is surrounded by a swarm of meteor fragments which rain destructively down on the planet. In the real world ...

A militarized lunar lander would share many of the same features as a commercial variant, although its supply chain would ...

Not all of it. Earlier this year, US president Donald Trump promised Congress that he would “lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond”. He’s wrong, ...

The future of interplanetary travel is looking brighter, thanks to the new Sunbird nuclear-powered rocket designed by Pulsar Fusion.

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...