After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...
A 196-foot-wide asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of striking Earth in 2032. An expert tells Space.com where this asteroid could ...
NASA recently paid tribute to the Challenger crew and other fallen astronauts during its annual Day of Remembrance.
A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...
A n asteroid discovered in 2024 has been placed at level 3 on the Torino impact scale, with a small chance of impact with ...
A small object, 2015 DJ155, roughly the size of the Statue of Liberty, is expected to pass by Earth on January 31, traveling ...
The researchers included the father-son team of Mark Thiemens, UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and ...
Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...
New research suggests that Earth's recent mini-moon might have originated as part of our actual moon long, long ago.