Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

For the past 60 years, Earth has had a secret companion in space—a quasi-moon that has been sharing our planet’s orbit around ...

The sun’s gravity would be pulling the moon away from Earth on November 20, 2025, at a distance that it had never been in the ...

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

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...