Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

It is expected to make its closest approach to Earth in March 2025, coming within approximately 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) of our planet1. This asteroid was first detected by ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to better understand the solar system’s early history and the origins of materials ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

The second asteroid, 2007 UT3, measures about 73 feet in size, comparable to a small aeroplane. It is expected to have passed on October 26, 2024, at a distance of 4.2 million miles from ... These ...

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It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

Spider-Man 4 is finally happening and we now have both a filming start date and a confirmed release date. In early September 2024, it was reported that Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton was ...

Vesta, the second biggest member of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has existed for 4.5 billion years with an utter lack of atmosphere — so, any water the asteroid harbored on its ...