For centuries, space rocks have fascinated us. Space and its elements have always been mysterious. Astronomy is riddled with complex jargon that many of us don’t understand. However, we often keep ...
Simulations of asteroids near Venus reveal gaps in our ability to detect them. Astronomers are investigating a little-known and largely unseen group of asteroids that quietly orbit the sun alongside ...
Three city-killing asteroids that could strike Earth without warning in weeks are currently hiding behind our nearest neighbouring planet, boffins fear. The impact from any of the space rocks would ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly ...
A hidden population of asteroids sharing Venus' orbit could threaten Earth in a few thousand years, and we might not even see them coming without better telescopes. These so-called Venus co-orbital ...
The way an asteroid spins -- either smoothly on its axis or in a chaotic tumble -- depends on how many times it has been hit by other objects in space. At the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, ...