Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are small, only 10 ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...

Diwali Crackers Pictures Ideas for School Kids and Students: Diwali or Deepawali is a major festival in India, also known as the festival of light. This special day marks the victory of good over ...

Today we know of around 990,000 asteroids between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, in what is known as the Main Asteroid Belt. Most of them were formed when the planets formed in the Solar System.

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...

It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep) ...