Saturn may be one of the most beautiful planets in the solar system, but reaching it is brutally difficult. Sitting 1.3 billion kilometers from Earth, the gas giant lies beyond the asteroid belt in a ...

China is accelerating its efforts in space exploration by enhancing research into space mining technologies. This move is ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.