Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity ...

Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to ...

Chinese researchers created an AI-powered robot that leaps across asteroid surfaces, adjusting its posture mid-air to enhance ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...

Though it’s not a true moon, this asteroid’s brief orbit around Earth offers valuable insight into the dynamics of celestial ...

AND WHEN IT FIRES, IT RELEASES MORE ELECTRICITY THAN ALL OF THE POWER PLANTS ON EARTH COMBINED. TO MOST PEOPLE, DANGER FROM ...

Asteroids, comets, and meteors are all small solar system objects, but they differ in composition and behaviour.

NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office works to track and predict future movements of asteroids, allowing time to launch a deflection mission to change its course and keep us safe.

Asteroid 2024 BX1 (as it came to be known shortly after impacting the atmosphere) is no more, but our brief knowledge of its existence highlights our ever-improving ability to track movements in ...

Specifically, it can show how the movement of giant planets may have led to the creation of asteroids and moons, she explained. Using images taken by the deep space probe Voyager 2 in 1986 ...

Scientists are constantly monitoring the sky to detect previously unidentified near-Earth objects (NEOs) and track the movement of known ... of these NEOs are asteroids—most of which are small ...