All of that aside, I hope people remember Tom Hanks for more than his Oscar-winning portrayal of Forrest Gump -- who, by the way, I think would have also bought the White House coffee makers if ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

MIT scientists analyzed one of several particles (shown in black) from the asteroid Ryugu, and found evidence that a weak magnetic field likely existed in the outer solar system where the asteroid is ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

N ASA's planetary defense telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has burned up in the ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...

Factorio: Space Age is a masterful expansion which repeatedly reinvents Factorio with each leg of its interplanetary journey.