The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy's sensational shot of a man skydiving 'through' the Sun has shone light on the star like never before.

Explore the vastness of the Solar System in this video, which accurately showcases the relative sizes of the planets and ...

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, likely formed through a capture event in the early, crowded Kuiper Belt. Three-body encounters ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a four per cent chance of hitting the moon on 22 December 2032. However, fresh observations could mean the odds of a collision rise to as high as 30 per cent.

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In an eleventh-hour attempt to slow down global warming, some scientists have been proposing — or even testing, at a small scale — whether releasing aerosolized particles into the atmosphere to dim ...

It’s doing a Sun run. Manhattan-sized comet 3I/ATLAS — which scientists suspect could have extraterrestrial origins — will reach its closest approach to the Sun on October 30. While ATLAS doesn’t ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

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Planetary size was determined pre-spacecraft by measuring the planet's angular diameter and its distance from Earth (in AU, later converted to terrestrial units after the AU was accurately measured ...