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

While posing no threat, 2024 XS3's observation contributes to planetary defense efforts and our understanding of the early solar system. Today, the Apollo NEO asteroid, 2024 XS3, will pass Earth ...

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 ...

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

Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth ... and may have originated from the main asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and ...

As a result, they spotted the smallest asteroids ever detected in the main belt ... an early detection system for observing and tracking asteroids. When an asteroid somewhat bigger than a cat ...

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt. However ... 36,000 objects in our solar system classified as NEOs.

Now, please forget all that as we address the question: How can spacecraft in this solar system pass through the asteroid ...

Ask almost anyone which planet has rings around it, and you’ll get the answer “Saturn”, especially if they’ve ever viewed it through a telescope. But not many people know that the other gas giants in ...

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between ... in our solar system, according ...

To those studying far-flung galaxies and planets ... astronomers’ understanding of the asteroid belt, the wreckage left behind from the inner solar system’s formation—and it’s always ...