Astronomers from the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University have performed X-ray and optical observations ...

NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency There are just three nations that Britain can truly trust.

So exactly how many solar system moons have we found? The answer, it turns out, depends on your definition of a moon. But this is likely just "the tip of the iceberg," Edward Ashton, an astronomer ...

Asteroids are believed to be remnants of the early formation of the solar system. They are often called ... and floods in coastal areas. Asteroid Bennu, on the other hand, has a diameter ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

To unlock these rewards, they must use Galacta’s Power Cosmic, a unique Zelda currency-like system, to roll dice and navigate a ... potentially inspired by Asteroid M Marvel or Doom Eternal maps.

Verbiscer is one of eight participating scientists NASA selected to join its Lucy mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids – presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s orbit ...

2024 YR4 was discovered on December 27 of last year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) — a NASA-funded asteroid detection program with telescopes around the world ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

A recent study models an alternate version of our solar system, one where an extra planet, rather than an asteroid belt, formed between Mars and Jupiter. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Could a giant planet ...