Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

The obvious way to fire someone into the Sun is the direct approach, as shown in South Park Season 1. Point a rocket at the ...

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...

If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long ...

For the next half-century, Earth will have a new celestial companion. A small asteroid, officially designated 2025 PN7, has ...

Imagine a massive meteor crashing into Earth, but this one isn’t from our solar system. A new study, recently uploaded to the ...

"This successful test marks a major step forward in the development of future satellite control systems." For the first time, ...

A new celestial discovery has astronomers buzzing: a small space rock, quietly trailing Earth for decades, has been confirmed ...