For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

However, Chiron was classified as an asteroid. It moves around Jupiter and Neptune through one orbit that is extremely unstable ... These objects are acted upon mostly by the giant planets, and their ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

HELSINKI — China sent a classified experimental technology satellite into orbit Thursday, adding to a series of spacecraft recently sent towards geostationary orbit. A Long March 3B rocket ...

The hit BBC show, Tomorrow's World, ran for almost 40 years and focused on developments in the science and technology worlds ...

From a death swirl into Jupiter to "Ghost Riders in the Sky," here are some of the most exciting space missions coming in 2025. This year will be an exciting time for space missions. 2025 kicks ...

The so-called Grand Tack Model features our very early Jupiter migrating inward toward the Sun before —- somewhat akin to the movement of ... The low-mass Main Asteroid Belt model in which ...

Western graduate students win NASA Space Apps Challenge for their app that shows the orbits of near-Earth objects that could threaten space infrastructure.

2025 kicks off with two moon landing attempts in January, followed by SpaceX's daring demonstration to transfer propellants between two Starship vehicles in low Earth orbit — a critical step in ...