USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet ... studying whether an asteroid between 130 and 300 feet long will impact ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets ... between the newly formed sun and swirling outer ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 130 to 330 (40 to 100 meters) feet across, and came the closest to our planet on Christmas Day. But be at ease, reader: While scientists last week confirmed ...

These embryos, somewhere between ... planets, were abundant during the solar system's formative stages and played a critical role in planetary formation. Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt ...

The asteroid measures between 40 and 90 metres wide (130 and ... swinging through the inner planets before passing Mars and heading out toward Jupiter. For now, it’s heading away from Earth ...

A space mission to an asteroid has returned ... of water ice that was in the outer Solar System, the accumulation of icy planetesimals would have led to the inner planets acquiring more water ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40–90 ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Based on its brightness, astronomers estimate it is between 130 and 300 feet (40–90 ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the outer asteroid belt may have brought it with them. In the ...