For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...

Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

Nine-year-old Ariana Church discovered a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite older than Earth itself - while exploring a beach in ...

Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

New research suggests Earth’s water came from sources other than meteorites, challenging long-standing theories on planetary ...

Planetary scientists analyzing oxygen isotopes in lunar soil from the Apollo mission sites conclude that meteorite bombardment over 4 billion years could only have delivered a tiny fraction of Earth’s ...