NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

Saturn's Moon ... outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ... Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246 ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon ... asteroid belt in our solar system, located between ...

Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

However, the asteroid may still have a ~2% chance of striking the Moon instead ... asteroids that come from the outer parts of the solar system, YR4’s origins lie within the Main Belt between ...

they will reveal important information about the building blocks and collisional processes that formed the planets in our Solar System." Related: 'City-killer' asteroid that might hit moon has ...

Last week, NASA scientists revealed that the infamous "city-killer" asteroid that once posed a threat to Earth could now smash into the Moon ... from in the solar system. According to a team ...

An asteroid that experts feared could hit Earth is no longer on track for the planet – but it still has a slim chance of striking the moon ... into the outer solar system for the next several ...