However, this is not the only asteroid that will come close to Earth today. There are four others, but they will not come as ...
And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 feet is all set to get very close to Earth ...
Nearly 50,000 meteorites have been found in Antarctica and hundreds of thousands more could be recoverable. Each one tells a ...
While it is likely that Earth got a good amount of water, and other materials, from comets, the probable incidence of comet collisions with Earth in its distant past, in a period called the ...
Our first interstellar visitor brought a mystery. It accelerated beyond what we would expect from gravity alone.
The first asteroid is designated 517681 (2015 DE198), and the second is 439437 (2013 NK4). Both flights will take place one ...
Meteorites are messengers from the depths of primordial time—cast-off fragments of asteroids and comets that formed alongside our sun from raw materials predating our star itself. But their ...
Astronomers have used 19 years' worth of Hubble data to detect over 1,000 previously unknown asteroids in our solar system.
Mar. 22, 2024 — How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star? A new study gives scientists a better idea of how our own solar system came to ..
SpaceHopper is a three-legged robot explorer that should be able to jump around on asteroids. A three-legged robot named SpaceHopper could help combat the challenges of exploring low-gravity ...
The collaboration between the Portland dance favorite and the acclaimed wind ensemble reaches deep into the past to examine ...