In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

The recently discovered asteroid 2025 QD8 will zoom closely by Earth on Wednesday. However, there is no need to be concerned. This space rock will safely pass by our planet, and you can watch as it ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

All 19 of the newly identified rapidly rotating asteroids are longer than an American football field, which is approximately ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...