The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

So, many questions arise about Chiron’s properties that allow these unique behaviours.’ Centaurs are the dinosaur bones of the solar system, made up of the same dust and gas that formed the solar ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued a warning that two giant asteroids are set to have a close ...

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system's main belt, down to the size of around a kilometer ... radiation from the Sun, making them much ...

NASA's Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun, in 2025. One key event for Lucy is its flyby of the inner main ...

They become ensnared by the planetary gravitational grip and subsequently orbit the sun along the same ... to explore them. Trojan asteroids also have been found around Neptune (28 of them ...

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On this scale, the main belt would be a disk with an inner boundary 76 feet (23 meters) from the softball-sized Sun, while the outer boundary would be 113 feet (34 m) away. All the asteroids put ...