Everyone's favorite dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered just 95 years ago. Here's the story of how the once-ninth planet was ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

Chinese commercial launch company Galactic Energy successfully sent eight satellites into orbit early Monday with its light-lift Ceres-1 rocket. The Ceres-1 solid rocket lifted off at ...

According to NASA, the probability of an asteroid capable of destroying a city striking Earth is 0.1% every year. If one of these does hit Earth, there is a 70% chance it will land in the ocean ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has only about 1.3% of the mass of the Moon. The asteroid Vesta has about 28% of the mass of Ceres ...

17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246 ... of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

Last week, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but the numbers go up and down every day, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies. On Monday, March 3 ...

However, there is a 1.7% chance that it could impact the moon. In 2013, a small asteroid, just 60 feet wide, exploded over Russia, injuring more than 1,600 people. An asteroid big enough to wipe ...

The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. California startup AstroForge launched its Odin spacecraft on Feb. 26, on the same SpaceX ...

It seems the asteroid is heading its way now. Therefore, from virtually no chance of the asteroid crashing into the moon, the risk factor now is around 1.7%. The date of the closest approach to Earth ...

It shows a frame of the asteroid’s path through the night sky in January 2025, observed at infrared wavelengths with the HAWK-I instrument. These early observations contributed to increasing the odds ...