Dec. 19, 2024 — Scientists have unveiled groundbreaking research on the origins of lunar water, offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader ...
Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.
The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...
The Tianwen-2 mission will see a spacecraft anchor down on the asteroid, which scientists believe could be a fragment of the Moon ... to Mars and beyond. Our solar system is made up of nine ...
A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...
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 ...
The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...
Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...