The asteroid will pass at a distance of 6.68 million kilometres from Earth, which is roughly 17 times closer than the distance between Earth and the Moon. Astronomers consider such proximity a close ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

There should be rocks showing both impact shock and high magnetism located near the lunar South Pole on the far side of the ...

A large asteroid, 2003 MH4, will pass by Earth on May 24. It is about the size of the Eiffel Tower. The asteroid will travel ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...

The Kinetica-1 rocket launched Wednesday for the first time since a failure doomed its previous attempt to reach orbit in December, according to the vehicle's developer and operator, CAS Space. The ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

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One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

In recent years, humanity has visited several near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), including Ryugu (Hayabusa2) and Didymos (DART).