While two of these space rocks are not coming back any time soon, the other two hit their closest approach to Earth for a long while to come.
April 10 was a very good day for SpaceX.
The latest 11-year cycle of the sun is almost over and scientists have just released predictions for the next one.
Climate change is a serious threat to human society. But even the most extreme worst-case future scenario wouldn’t wipe out humanity instantly. There’s only one thing that might do that — a major asteroid or comet impact.
Israel’s dreams of a lunar landing will have to wait a little longer.
Scientists crunched data gathered by a global network of eight radio telescope observatories
Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.
Metallic asteroids are the cooled cores of disrupted planetesimals. They originated early in the history of our Solar System when planets were beginning to form. University of California Santa Cruz planetary researchers Jacob Abrahams and Professor Francis Nimmo think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the metallic asteroid.
Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises the excitement about exoplanets.
To see Tim Ellis hunched over his laptop, alone in a room at a major space industry conference in Colorado, you can hardly imagine that he might be the next Elon Musk.
