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World Asteroid Day is observed every year on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroids and the potential hazards they pose ...

Neptune and Saturn are two Moon-widths apart all month, while the morning sky hosts Venus and Uranus together in Taurus.

A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

Researchers find a mineral called djerfisherite in a Ryugu grain, which supposedly forms in circumstances that the asteroid ...

Some objects were placed in space on purpose, symbolic gestures meant to inspire or amuse. Others were lost by accident, abandoned or forgotten during ambitious missions.