Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

A study conducted by scientists at São Paulo State University’s Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 19 asteroids of interstellar origin ...

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Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. The car’s owner reported that the ...

An AI deepfake was final straw for a Washington state trooper. He's suing Tatiana Schlossberg, John F Kennedy's granddaughter ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between small planetesimals and fully formed planets, ...

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

The Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and around three trillion comets and icy bodies. Although not all objects of the solar system are as ...

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Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...