Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...
World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...
"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
The worldwide tech leading Dutch firm, cosine, is making a big impact in space exploration. The company is playing a key role in the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission by providing a ...
New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...
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