The Red Planet will be at its closest point to Earth, also known as perigee, on Jan. 12 and will be exactly opposite the sun ...

This Sunday, an asteroid larger than Manhattan – large enough it could end civilization, or at least wreck a country – is ...

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The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

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The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

NASA reports that two asteroids, 2024 YC9 and 2024 YL1, will approach Earth on January 3, 2025, providing a valuable ...

Mars’ strangely small mass still puzzles planetary scientists. Definitive answers as to why are still hard to come by.

Space Rider is a reusable spacecraft designed to carry out various scientific experiments in low Earth orbit ... is when a spacecraft passes close enough to a planet or moon to use its gravity ...