Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

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 ...

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 ...

ABU DHABI, 11th March, 2025 (WAM) -- The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) has achieved a significant milestone by ...

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 ...

The ministry said the “Security Belt-2025” joint exercise would be held near the Iranian port of Chabahar on the coast of the Gulf of Oman with the aim of deepening “military trust and ...

March 9 (UPI) --Iran, China and Russia will launch a joint military operation Monday called "Security Belt 2025," designed to promote security and trilateral cooperation in the Indian Ocean.

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

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 ...

A huge space rock, dubbed by the US space agency NASA as Asteroid 2025 DU2 is rushing toward a close encounter with Earth and it is set to happen today. Not only is this a massive 150-foot asteroid, ...