In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

KX8, will closely approach Earth on June 4, 2025. NASA is monitoring the space rock, which is about 36 meters in diameter. It ...

Once feared as a threat to Earth, the asteroid Apophis is now considered to pose a rare exploration opportunity — if space ...

Nostradamus is known for his book Les Prophetis (The Prophecies), which was published in 1555. It contained 942 poetic ...

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

A gigantic asteroid, the size of a 25-storey building is fastly approaching the earth and it has already reached very close ...

NASA’s planetary defence programme has kept a keen eye on five asteroids classed as ‘potentially hazardous’, making their ...

Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...