Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly ...

Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...

The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...

Did Earth once look a lot more like Saturn? Scientists believe the answer is yes! In a groundbreaking study, researchers in ...

There’ll be a celestial show tonight with a stadium-sized asteroid fly-by, a Harvest full supermoon and partial lunar eclipse ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

The Ordovician impact spike was previously thought to have been caused by the breakup of a large asteroid in the belt between Mars ... leaving 70 percent of the Earth's surface more or less untouched.

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...