UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant "centaur" that exhibits traits of both a comet and an asteroid. These findings ...

Two asteroids, 2024 YW9 and 2024 PT5, will pass close to Earth on January 9, 2025. NASA confirms they are not a threat. The ...

Chiron is a class of comet-ish asteroids/asteroid-ish comets called centaurs – named after the half-human, half-horse hybrid ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is monitoring five asteroids—2024 YA10, 2024 BM1, 2024 PT5, 2024 YD13, and 2024 YW9—approaching Earth.

Dust cloud is thought to be the first debris disk to be seen around a planetary nebula. The planetary nebula WeSb 1 ...

According to a new study, the carbon atoms that form part of all life on Earth may have traveled outside the galaxy first.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued a warning that two giant asteroids are set to have a close ...

NASA's JPL tracks four asteroids set to safely pass Earth on January 8-9, 2025, offering opportunities for scientific study and research on these space rocks.

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons has recently returned from ground control of the European Space Agency Hera mission at the ...

NASA alerts of two asteroids nearing Earth earth on January 8. Here's everything you need to know about these celestial ...

Earth is constantly bombarded by space debris, from the tons of cosmic dust that lands on the planet daily to rare, huge, dinosaur-killing asteroids that arrive from deep space every tens of millions ...

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