An asteroid that has been wandering through space for billions of years is going to have been bombarded by everything from ...
Comets are small bodies, like asteroids, that also contain ices such as water and carbon dioxide. When a comet heats up as it ...
A spacecraft recently captured a new vantage point of a massive crater on the Martian surface. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter's (TGO) CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) instrument ...
A new research paper accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters takes a look at asteroid ...
Researchers smashed an asteroid with a spacecraft. From the aftermath, they are learning how to better protect Earth ...
Researchers are analyzing materials returned from asteroid 101955 Bennu, and they don't look exactly like chondrules seen in ...
The Erigone family of asteroids are water-rich space rocks that provide a window into the solar system's past.
Our galaxy is a jewel box of red stars. More than 70% of the stars in the Milky Way are M dwarfs, also known as red dwarfs.
They believe these piles are bound together with very weak forces and mostly gravity, meaning they could break apart more ...
An international team of astronomers has detected a new, Earth-sized planet just 55 light years away, orbiting an ultra-cool ...
The primitive asteroids that UCF physics doctoral student Brittany Harvison studies carry with them traces of their origins ...
Ancient zircon crystals hold chemical clues that of freshwater may have existed on Earth soon after it formed.