Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

An asteroid the size of nine reindeer is set to pass over the Earth on Wednesday, Christmas, in what is set to be a relatively close holiday flyby, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.

NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. dimazel - stock.adobe.com Are we about to get Jingle Bell rock-ed? Santa Claus isn’t ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the solar system. The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

Explore the history of Aurora Plastics, the Long Island company behind iconic model kits of superheroes, monsters and ...

Tianwen-2 is an asteroid sample return mission with near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) as its destination. The asteroid is roughly the size of a Ferris wheel – between 150 and 190 ...

A massive asteroid, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," is set to skim past Earth on December 24 at an astonishing speed of 14,743 mph (23,700 km/h). The space rock, known as 2024 XN1 ...

Nostradamus's writings suggest that 2025 could bring significant challenges, including a potential asteroid collision and a plague-like outbreak in the UK. Nostradamus, a French astrologer and ...