A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it hidden?

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

The asteroid is believed to be now 11 meters (36 feet) across, spinning on its axis every five minutes, and has a peculiar composition. The discovery has massive implications for the mission. One of ...

But a new study published in Nature Astronomy shows that even very small asteroids can surprise us—and sometimes explode ...

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team ...

When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

An asteroid called 2023 CX1 underwent a single explosion, hinting that it had an unusual structure that might be more ...

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