Gaia data allows, for example, ... Based on Gaia DR3, Finnish researchers will change the conception of asteroids in our Solar System, exoplanets and stars in our Milky Way galaxy, ...

Maybe active asteroids did the job of enriching Earth, but we have so few examples in the modern solar system that it's too hard to tell. Thankfully, these active asteroids are not alone.

The answer, in short order: asteroids. On April 15, 2010, Obama delivered an address at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, to make the case. “I just have to say pretty bluntly here: we’ve ...

This is probably a result of asteroids hitting their surfaces and ejecting material ... known as sodium-rich plagioclase (such as albite), iron-poor pyroxene (for example enstatite), iron-poor olivine ...

A new space device called GIRO could transform how we study planets and other celestial bodies. Compact and precise, this ...

The Dawn spacecraft will soon visit the asteroids Vesta and Ceres. Here are a few more of the most mysterious asteroids in our solar system. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of ...

New data about binary asteroids comes from ESA's Gaia mission, a space-based telescope which has spotted new potential moons around 350 asteroids. Skip to main content Menu ...

This rocky body was first seen in 1974 and stretches about two-thirds of a mile from end to end. Most of the asteroids the team studied will likely cross Earth’s orbit for only short windows of ...

Learn more about how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture more of our stunning universe.

For example, the giant planets appear to have formed much closer to the sun than they are today. But something made them move farther out, and scientists want to know more about how that happened.

Our findings, however, show that asteroids are stronger than we used to think and require more energy to be completely shattered," says Charles El Mir, a recent PhD graduate from the Whiting School of ...