Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

TN17 is estimated to be around 540 feet in diameter, which is greater than the height of the Pyramid of Giza in Egypt (449 ...

The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

From this route, the resulting exoplanet would be expected to share roughly the same composition as its parent star. ‘The ...

Emporia State and the Peterson Planetarium will collaborate with Emporia Main Street on creating a permanent scale model of the solar system throughout campus and the downtown area, a project ...

Eris is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian object in the scattered disk and has a high-eccentricity orbit. Ceres is a dwarf planet in ...