Herd discovered that the sample was chondrite, the most common type of space rock that strikes Earth, and that it likely ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an asteroid-comet hybrid called a ‘centaur’ that might not even be that. Asteroids are ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system.

Located between Jupiter and Neptune, Chiron moves through space like an asteroid while simultaneously producing glowing tails of gas and dust characteristic of comets. When first discovered in 1977, ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

The phenomenon will be at its peak on January 17 and 18, offering an exceptional view of Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter aligning, just after sunset. During these dates, Venus and Saturn will ...

Related: Annual meteor shower viewing guide The Quadrantid meteor shower is produced when Earth passes through the debris or ice and dust left behind by asteroid 2003 EH1, which is likely an ...