A new study led by Brown University researchers shows how a water-rich mineral could explain the planet’s color, hinting at a ...

The odds that the space rock, 2024 YR4, will smash into our planet in 2032 have dropped to nearly zero, leading astronomers to conclude that we are no longer in danger.

Strange, tilted geological formations spotted on Mars may be ancient beaches on the shore of a huge ocean, data from China's ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

Simultaneously, Neptune is an ice giant, made of dense icy materials like water, methane, and ammonia, over a small rocky core. The planet is very cold and dark on the surface, making it too cold ...

Major Test Case for New Geothermal Technology Launches in Small German Town Residents in the German town ... when a drilling ...

New research based on data collected by a robot on Mars has shown that meteoroids, or small asteroids, are triggering seismic waves that penetrate far below the planet’s surface. Using ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...