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

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

A rare G4 geomagnetic storm watch now hangs over one of the most anticipated launches of the year, as Blue Origin readies to send its towering 98-meter New Glenn rocket on its second-ever flight from ...

Relationship to Speed: When a planet is closer to the Sun (near perihelion), it must move faster to sweep out the same area in a given time as when it is farther from the Sun (near aphelion).

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

NASA images show asteroid 2025 OW spinning at extreme speed, improving its orbit forecast and revealing surface details only ...

When the phrase "two spacecraft are following paths in space given by" is used, it implies that we have access to this kind of information for both spacecraft, usually in the form of mathematical ...