On November 1, 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a ...

Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

Record-breaking total of 15,000+ citizen science observations from the SETI Institute & Unistellar Network — up substantially from ~10,000 in 2024. Observers are already tracking fading 3I/ATLAS, new ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University researchers now have ...

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The finding, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers an explanation based on a ...

Wednesday is "Pluto Day," because – yes, of course there is a day for that. And, while celebrating the celestial object that ...

A groundbreaking new study using artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray ...