For the next few decades, a tiny asteroid will move quietly through space alongside Earth. This space rock, called 2025 PN7, ...

Gravity and motion make time pass faster on Mars than Earth, reshaping navigation, communication, and future crewed missions.

Imagine a massive meteor crashing into Earth, but this one isn’t from our solar system. A new study, recently uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, sheds light on where and when a meteor from another ...

Mars has just entered retrograde, suddenly reversing its course across the sky. As of October 30, Mars stopped moving eastwards through the night sky and began crawling its way westwards through the ...

Four near-Earth asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth within a 24-hour period, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed. Scientists stress that all four objects will pass ...

The Earth has a newly discovered neighbor in the form of a "quasi-moon" that appears to be following us around through space. The newly discovered object, named 2023 FW13, is an asteroid measuring ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have mapped the motions of stars within the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Although the term itself immediately conjures the sort of ...