Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

La., asks a question during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, Washington DC, USA, Wednesday, June 18, 2025 ...

Lucy’s first asteroid flyby was in 2023 when it swept past little Dinkinesh, also in the main asteroid belt. The spacecraft discovered a mini moon around it.

On March 28, 1802, German astronomer and physician Wilhelm Olbers discovered an asteroid. Now called 2 Pallas, it can even be considered the first asteroid to be discovered as 1 Ceres, considered ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

The kids join Celery in a space race between them, Uncle Zucchini, and Auntie Eggplant and Zerk. The course is all the way around the Asteroid Belt. / Sydney decides that Jet’s robot, Jet 2, is lonely ...

This project aims to identify new asteroids by analysing telescope data from across the world. Daksh enthusiastically made efforts to discover an asteroid, which is temporarily named "2023 OG40" after ...

WHERE I WORK 25 November 2024 I defend the planet from asteroid collisions Astronomer Desireé Cotto-Figueora detects and characterizes near-Earth asteroids to identify potential hazards.

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.

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Gaspra was the first asteroid to ever be visited ...