They appear to have been formed by 10 or more related space rocks including the comet 2P/Encke. One hypothesis is that Comet ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has issued a notice regarding an asteroid approaching Earth today, measuring roughly the length of the Golden G ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

An asteroid of the size of Golden Gate Bridge will brush past Earth today, NASA has warned. NASA JPL has classified 1998 ST27 as a “Potentially Hazardous Asteroid” due to its predicted close ...

A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) set to make a close approach to Earth in five years’ time.

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...

The comet has already been photographed around the world, including in the sky above the Golden Gate Bridge in ... followed by a team using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System ...

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid stretching 6 miles (10 kilometers) across struck Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs. Today, the probability of an asteroid that size wiping ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO 14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn. The team has posted a paper describing their study of the ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...