The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

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

Mars has just entered retrograde, suddenly reversing its course across the sky. As of October 30, Mars stopped moving eastwards through the night sky and began crawling its way westwards through the ...

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

The Earth has a newly discovered neighbor in the form of a "quasi-moon" that appears to be following us around through space. The newly discovered object, named 2023 FW13, is an asteroid measuring ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have mapped the motions of stars within the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large ...

During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with ...

(CNN) — A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch this week. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Although the term itself immediately conjures the sort of ...

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 ...