Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...
"The signatures of space weathering we have detected directly will give us a better understanding of some of the phenomena ...
After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...
Analyzing samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has revealed new ...
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the ...
An asteroid dubbed "Lucy's baby" after a NASA spacecraft discovered it is orbiting another asteroid last November is,, in ...
Before it shattered over Germany, the asteroid 2024 BX1 was clocked rotating once every 2.6 seconds – the fastest spin we ...
Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid, scientists say they have determined where this mysterious object came from on the Moon's surface.
Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...
The AI, trained by asteroid-hunting citizen scientists, found the previously uncategorized space rocks in archival Hubble ...
A recent study examined the effects of space weathering on Ryugu, an asteroid explored by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.