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ESA's Gaia mission has determined he orbits of 154,741 asteroids in our solar system. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Moment a Utah ...

"This is five times more than all the astronomers in the world discovered during the last 200 years since the discovery of ...

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The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...

Ryugu and Bennu are two different near-Earth asteroids, but new research has suggested they were likely once part of the same larger asteroid “parent body.” The asteroids have the distinction ...

About 80 asteroids are more than one kilometer (or 0.6 miles) long — big enough to make us go extinct. Lucky for us, a strike from one of these is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Asteroids are the debris left over from the formation of the solar system. Four and a half billion years ago, our solar system was nothing more than a rotating cloud of gas and dust.

Ryugu and Bennu are two different near-Earth asteroids, but new research has suggested they were likely once part of the same larger asteroid “parent body.” The asteroids have the distinction ...