For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
With a friend in the White House, the tech billionaire's extraterrestrial ambitions are ready for lift-off - but not ...
On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced ...
Alinda, which measures about 4.2 kilometers in diameter, can be seen from our planet. This is due to an astronomical ...
Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...
The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...
"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...
The Alinda asteroid will be visible with binoculars in a 'once in a decade' event as it brushes past Earth, with its return ...
Alinda, measuring 2.6 miles wide, will be visible this weekend. Stargazers can spot it using basic equipment or watch a ...
An asteroid smacking into Mars could eject debris high above the Red Planet. If Deimos and Phobos formed from debris resulting from an asteroid collision on Mars, they must be younger than the Red ...
Typically, asteroids - like the one depicted in this artist's concept - originate from the main asteroid belt between the ...
The UAE is developing a space craft to land on an asteroid belt beyond Mars.