When scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo’oalewa in 2016, they almost immediately suspected it might have once been a part ...
However, this is not the only asteroid that will come close to Earth today. There are four others, but they will not come as ...
Nearly 50,000 meteorites have been found in Antarctica and hundreds of thousands more could be recoverable. Each one tells a ...
The space rock has been classified as a near-Earth object (NEO), with data published on Nasa's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). According to the website the asteroid, known simply as ...
The first asteroid is designated 517681 (2015 DE198), and the second is 439437 (2013 NK4). Both flights will take place one ...
Astronomers have used 19 years' worth of Hubble data to detect over 1,000 previously unknown asteroids in our solar system.
Five asteroids are set to fly past Earth on Saturday, April 13. Three of them are of the size of a bus and two are of the size of an airplane. US space agency NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ...
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 ...
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 ...