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 Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Solar Composition Ratios That Could Reconcile Longstanding Questions Nov. 12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets ...

Saturn, always a favorite for viewers with telescopes because of its famous ring system, is not far from Venus, though appearing only a fraction as bright. These two planets will appear closest ...

Talking about asteroids, Jay Tate, the director of the Spaceguard Center observatory in the UK, told Newsweek, “Asteroids are ‘bits of a planet that didn’t happen’ that orbit the Sun between Mars and ...