These are busy days at the ESA's Planetary Defense Office, led by veteran German physicist Richard Moissl. A department created in 2021 based in Frascati, Italy, dedicated to protecting humanity ...

But planetary scientist Terik Daly says there’s no reason to panic. Daly joined NewsNation to discuss the possibility that the asteroid, which has been dubbed a city killer, could hit the Earth ...

On Friday, Mercury will join Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in the planetary alignment. However, not all ...

As humans, we’re curious about how we got here. When we look out at the night sky, we see stars and planets, even galaxies.

planetary scientist at the University of Reading. Over time, calculations help astronomers to improve accuracy and reduce uncertainty of the asteroid's path, O’Donoghue told the Manchester ...

Frank Stefani, a physicist at Helmholtz-Zentrum research ... But there are other, far less contentious, quirks of planetary alignments which certainly do have an impact on us: their usefulness ...

All seven planets are going to line up in the night sky on Friday in a rare planetary parade that will not be repeated for another 15 years. The celestial display will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus ...