NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
NASA has issued an alert for a 100-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth tomorrow. Should you be concerned? Let's dive in and ...
Through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, Daksh Malik successfully discovered asteroid 2023 OG40 in the main ...
For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.
Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...
The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...
The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.
Herd discovered that the sample was chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes Earth, and that it likely ...
Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...
"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...