In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object's orbit around its larger companion asteroid. We already knew that the Double ...

'How planets revolve' is possibly one of the first extraterrestrial phenomena that educators taught students at school. They are told that in this phenomenon, the planets move around the sun in fixed ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has long argued that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, which has puzzled astronomers since its discovery in early July, could be an enormous, alien spacecraft, measuring up to ...

A recently identified asteroid is capturing astronomers' attention with its frantic race around the Sun. Discovered under unique observation conditions, this celestial body named 2025 SC79 stands out ...

A newly discovered interstellar comet is hurtling around us, only the third interloper object to be observed in our solar system. It is not expected to pose an impact risk to Earth, but telescopes ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...