Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...
A recent study examined the effects of space weathering on Ryugu, an asteroid explored by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.
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 ...
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 ...
When the e-scooter company Matt Gialich used to work for had to pause production owing to a shortage of platinum, a key component for the microprocessor that translates commands from the controls ...
Astronomers have used 19 years' worth of Hubble data to detect over 1,000 previously unknown asteroids in our solar system.
It would appear that the so-called "great instability" event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today ...
Nearly 50,000 meteorites have been found in Antarctica and hundreds of thousands more could be recoverable. Each one tells a story of the solar system’s evolution—the first lunar rock found on ...