The 73-feet-wide space rock is currently hurtling through space at a zippy 18,678 miles per hour, according to the space ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise ...

NASA's spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of the asteroid Bennu, using a robotic arm to collect around 120g of ...

For a brief few weeks in early 2025, astronomers were worried about the asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late 2024 by an ...

Material older than the sun has been found 200 million miles from Earth by a NASA spacecraft. "Presolar grains" - the dust of ...

Ceres is 590 miles (950 km) across and was discovered in 1801. It is the closest dwarf planet to the sun and is located in ...

Dr. Loeb first raised concerns earlier this month, noting an anomaly in the object's appearance. Unlike typical comets, which ...

New analyses of the samples taken from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx have revealed new insights into its origin – and The University of Manchester’s scientists have played a key role.A series of ...

Harvard physicist Professor Dr Avi Loeb has sent alarm bells ringing as earlier this month he said the interstellar object travelling though the solar system could possibly by an ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

Scientists have analysed samples from the Bennu asteroid (pictured), which resembles the Death Star space station in the Star Wars films, and found it is 'chemically primitive'.