Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...
An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...
New AI research suggests organic molecules on Ceres likely originated from asteroid impacts, not internal activity.
Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
We all know how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. So whenever one of these lumps of space rocks gets anywhere near us, ...
The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own. These belts, analogous to the Kuiper and asteroid belts in our Solar System ...
On January 20, an asteroid called 2025 AY2 will approach our planet. It will pass at a distance of 4,220,000 miles (approximately 6,790,000 kilometers) from Earth. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...