NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring five asteroids—2024 YA10, 2024 BM1, 2024 PT5, 2024 YD13, and 2024 YW9—approaching Earth.
NASA alerts of two asteroids nearing Earth earth on January 9. Here's everything you need to know about these celestial ...
According to a new study, the carbon atoms that form part of all life on Earth may have traveled outside the galaxy first.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued a warning that two giant asteroids are set to have a close ...
NASA's JPL tracks four asteroids set to safely pass Earth on January 8-9, 2025, offering opportunities for scientific study and research on these space rocks.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons has recently returned from ground control of the European Space Agency Hera mission at the ...
UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...
Earth is constantly bombarded by space debris, from the tons of cosmic dust that lands on the planet daily to rare, huge, dinosaur-killing asteroids that arrive from deep space every tens of millions ...
Scientists have discovered a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system.
The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...
Scientists from the University of Central Florida have used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal that a mysterious object ...
In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...