Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 ...

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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 ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

"In 2024, Russian telescopes performed 1,231 astro-photometric measurements [determination of the brightness of a celestial body] of small bodies in the solar system, including potentially dangerous ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...

The solar system consists of stars, the Sun, 8 planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph.

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

An asteroid larger than Manhattan is soaring past the Earth today, and may be visible to the naked eye.  Alida, described as ...