From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

“Space is incredibly, profoundly empty,” Fuls said. “We don’t even check when we send probes through the asteroid belt.” Movies depict the belt as crowded and rock-filled, when in fact ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

A NASA spacecraft far from Earth has made an unexpected discovery, after turning its instruments towards a dark patch of sky at the galactic poles for over 200 hours. Studying the background light ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly by asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025, revealing its shattered past, strange spin, and secrets of planetary formation in a major space milestone.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in terms of dominance and expansion goes far beyond ...