The asteroid, also known as 469219 Kamo'oalewa, orbits the sun, so it remains a constant companion of Earth. It is too ...

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An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian woman astronomer whose pioneering work at the University of Cambridge has ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

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What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

That puts it in the Hadean eon – Earth’s chaotic infancy, when the planet’s surface simmered with volcanic fury and asteroid impacts were frequent enough to ruin any early landscaping efforts. Until ...