Researchers from the UW and Queen's University Belfast believe that knowledge of the objects in the solar system will expand exponentially when a new ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Three City-Killing Asteroids Could Strike Earth Soon Without Warning, Researchers Say It Is More Powerful Than Hiroshima ...

As private companies rush to harvest resources from asteroids and moons, new concerns are surfacing. Could removing massive ...

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious metals from asteroids, but it might also ...

The country's space agency said it will return “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos." ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated one million Near Earth Objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

A minimum of three 'city-killer' asteroids have been spotted near Venus, and they could strike Earth in the next few weeks ...

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

Everything, as they say, is bigger in Texas — including the space-adjacent sexual harassment scandals, and the egos behind ...