Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

In a cosmic twist of fate, scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid previously thought to pose ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Interestingly, when we combine the motions of Earth, Mars and Saturn ... moon and 4 degrees to the lower right of Jupiter. The comet should be near its peak brightness now, at magnitude +4.6 ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Near the equator lies Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Visible to the left of this image ... During the late nineteenth century, the spot was three times the size of Earth, but has since become smaller and ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Jupiter will be a bit lower in the sky, near Taurus. Venus will appear as the ... The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different speed ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. New research claims that a long-wished for planet between Mars and Jupiter could ...

When Jupiter was young, about 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet with 10 times the mass of Earth crashed head-on into its surface. The impact shook Jupiter to its core - literally. That's the ...

If a person with a mass of 55kg was to travel to Jupiter or Pluto, the effects of gravity would be very different from those on Earth. Gravity is the pull that a planet exerts towards its centre.