Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

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" and a massive outer planet, revealing insights into extreme planetary evolution. An international research team, led ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

My only surprise was that the researchers looking down their microscope at asteroid rock samples only saw terrestrial bacterial contamination and not golden retriever dog hair, which permeates the ...

First SoC architecture to integrate terrestrial demodulators, MPEG-2 video/audio, and high-speed processor for terrestrial DTV (digital television) products SWINDON, UK, May 21 - Zarlink Semiconductor ...

Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful space telescope to study a different kind of hybrid lurking in our cosmic backyard – an object that’s both asteroid and comet, potentially offering new ...

Knowing how many main belt asteroids ... over the solar system’s history, and even how meteorites end up on Earth. “We now understand more about how small objects in the asteroid belt are ...

Today: At 1:20 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky with respect to the background stars. This point is called the Winter Solstice. During the day that the Sun ...

A planet parade is when several of our solar system's planets are visible in the night sky at the same time. There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars ...