NASA is currently monitoring asteroid 2024 PT5, which is passing by Earth this month at a safe distance. Discovered in August 2024, the 33-foot-wide object has followed a path similar to Earth’s, ...

New evidence reveals that Homo erectus could survive in extreme environments like deserts over 1.2 million years ago, challenging the notion that only Homo sapiens were so adaptable. Credit: ...

Jumping Jupiter! The results are in, storm chasers! Thanks to your help over the last two years, the Jovian Vortex Hunter project has published a catalog of 7,222 vortices, which you can download ...

making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high-definition photos of our scorching hot solar system companion. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and the smallest in our solar system, ...

The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like ... recently completing its final flyby of the planet before entering orbit next year. [ Related: Mercury stuns ...

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8 ...

A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has made its final flyby of Mercury, as scientists now work to guide BepiColombo ... but none are expected ...

A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has made its final flyby of Mercury ... are expected to launch from Earth before 2030.

The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet. You can check out the awe-inspiring images below. On January 8, the robotic explorer operated by ...

Something strange is happening in Earth’s magnetic field, and it has caught NASA’s attention. A massive region of lower magnetic intensity, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), has appeared ...

Asteroid AB 2025 is set to make an astonishingly close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of just 1.2 million miles. This close encounter offers a unique opportunity to study the asteroid up ...