New observations suggest that a "city-killer" asteroid has a slightly higher chance of hitting the Moon than our planet.

Astronomers believe Donaldjohanson is a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ever ...

A new study suggests that Jupiter's moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis 4 billion years ago when a 90-mile-wide asteroid slammed into the planet. (Image credit: NASA, ESA and E. Karkoschka ...

Venus continues to be the brilliant “Morning Star” in the East before dawn, albeit dimming just a bit as it moves away from ...

Astronomers have revealed new sources of meteorites within the solar system's asteroid belt, helping us understand where potentially hazardous asteroids might also originate. The researchers ...

A simulation of the Lyrid meteor stream, which is quite wide, with each meteoroid moving on its own orbit around the sun. The orange line indicates the orbit of Jupiter. Beyond this orange line ...

The way comets behave in space may seem random, but new research suggests there’s more order behind the chaos than once ...

Astronomers initially thought the building-sized 2024 YR4 had a 3% chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032, but later ...