The Erigone family of asteroids are water-rich space rocks that provide a window into the solar system's past.
What can asteroids teach us about the early solar system and were they responsible for bringing water to the Earth in its ...
Despite the observational challenges, astronomers have discovered over 26,000 Mars-crossing asteroids from here on Earth, ...
An asteroid that has been wandering through space for billions of years is going to have been bombarded by everything from ...
Researchers smashed an asteroid with a spacecraft. From the aftermath, they are learning how to better protect Earth ...
The primitive asteroids that UCF physics doctoral student Brittany Harvison studies carry with them traces of their origins ...
There's an astronomical number of asteroids hanging around Earth, and it's important to spot them before they get too close.
They believe these piles are bound together with very weak forces and mostly gravity, meaning they could break apart more ...
But as an astronomer, what has me really excited right now is a largely overlooked development here on Earth that could have ...
With Google Cloud, the Asteroid Foundation used newly developed software to scour 1.7 billion points of light in some 400,000 ...
"We don't now need any theories about how water came to Earth - such as comets and asteroids - it was most likely here almost from the beginning. And water is, what made Earth habitable for life.