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From supermoons to meteor showers, Elizabeth Rizzini has your guide to what may delight in the autumn night skies.
China’s progress toward reusable rockets, orbital logistics, and lunar industrialization will secure the strategic high ground for Beijing.
According to China's space agency, the government is preparing to test a direct method of planetary defense by sending a spacecraft to collide with an asteroid.
On September 12, the UK Fireball Alliance announced that the search is targeted across a 12-mile stretch of the Scottish ...
The museum tapped artists — including Chicago rock screenprinter Jay Ryan — to visualize a 15-million-year period in time ...
Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...
Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...
While the early Mars climate remains an open question, a new study suggests its atmosphere may have been hospitable to life ...
When a massive asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, the solution seems straightforward; smash a spacecraft into it and knock it ...
A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...
The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...
To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...