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

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Jupiter will be a bit lower in the sky, near Taurus. Venus will appear as the ... The planets in the solar system orbit the sun, just as Earth does. Every planet orbits at a different speed ...

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth ... telescope’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph ...

orbiting around the sun between the paths of Mars and Jupiter. The orbits of asteroids bring them within 120 million miles of the sun. Most near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids that range in ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...