A fast-orbiting, 700-metre asteroid discovered within Venus's orbit highlights hidden near-Sun populations and underscores ...

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Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, 2025 SC79, orbiting incredibly close to the Sun and at a near-record ...

Lockheed Martin Ventures invests in Venus Aerospace to scale its flight-proven rotating detonation rocket engine, advancing ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

The rate r, in the context of NASA spacecraft measurements, is a generalized term representing various types of rates that are crucial in different scientific disciplines. The specific definition of r ...