ASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its trajectory ...

After three months of declines, ramping is on the rise again in South Australia with more than three-thousand hours lost in ...

Clever clogs over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered the "key for planetary defence" by finding a way ...

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...

The spacecraft is rapidly approaching our planet at high speed and will use Earth’s gravitational pull to gain a fair bit of velocity. On December 13 (this Friday), it will reach a point 350 ...

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

The Geminids are among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids, and this year they will peak on Friday ...

T he Geminids of 2024 are ongoing, and the meteor shower is about to peak in the next couple of days. When it does, we could ...