Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...
You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...
The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
Visiting Craters Of The Moon National Monument and Preserve is like taking a step onto another planet! For good reason t ...
Detectors inside Artemis I’s Orion capsule show how much radiation exposure its mannequins underwent and how effective a ...
For nearly two months this year, Earth’s moon will have company — a second moon. Technically, it isn’t a second moon, but ...
Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.
An asteroid, pulled into Earth’s orbit, is sometimes known as a ‘mini-moon.’ You’ll need a telescope to view it ...
The bus-size asteroid, which was discovered on August 7 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...
Here's what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it's not uncommon for objects flying through space to be attracted to it or get caught up in ...
Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...