Medicine & TechnologyEngineers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the United Arab Emirates have collaborated to build a space station on an asteroid that will be launched in 2028 with the aim to understand the beginnings of the Solar System.
A new space rock (248370) 2005 QN173 was confirmed as both comet and asteroid, making it a super-rare hybrid comet that is a member of the main asteroid belt.
In 2020, Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 took samples from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu and brought it back to Earth. Now, Argonne National Laboratory gets a rare chance to study these fragments at atomic scales.
A new study attempts to solve the impossible problems around the asteroid belt's gigantic space rock, Vesta. Its craters could hold information about its early existence, as much as of Earth's.
Experts said that deflecting an asteroid, such as 101955 Bennu, could require multiple bumps from a massive human-made deflection device to prevent it from hitting Earth.
Astronomers identified an asteroid that orbits the sun every 113 days, the shortest known cycle to date. This 3,280-foot-wide asteroid, known as 2021 PH27, was discovered on August 13.