NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...

The Moons will gather at the asteroid belt and plan their next big move against the planets! Who will come on top? Welcome to SolarBalls! Space animation filled with fun, entertaining animations ...

Most of the time these asteroids remain restrained within that interplanetary belt by Jupiter's gravitational field, unable to coalesce into a larger body. But occasionally another asteroid or the ...

The fear of huge asteroid impacts shares similarities with the fear of flying. Though the probability of anything happening is very small, the vivid thought of such a catastrophic event occurring ...

An asteroid is a metallic or rocky body that orbits the Sun within the asteroid belt, a region of space between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids are believed to be remnants of the early formation of ...

NASA has confirmed that a 150-foot-wide asteroid, 2025 DA7, is set to make a close approach to Earth tomorrow, March 12, 2025, at 5:41 AM IST. While this celestial object will pass at a safe distance ...

Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4 ... as they are more easily reached than asteroids in the Main Belt or beyond. As Eubanks told Universe Today via email ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 meters) and an average wavelength (from one crest of a wave to the next) of 1,970 ...

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A recent study models an alternate version of our solar system, one where an extra planet, rather than an asteroid belt, formed between Mars and Jupiter. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Could a giant planet ...

In November 2023, Lucy successfully observed Dinkinesh, a small main-belt asteroid, along with its contact-binary moon ... By blinking between images captured by Lucy on February 20 and 22, this ...