The Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar took a series of 28 images of asteroid 1997 QK1 on Aug. 21, 2025. - NASA / JPL-Caltech The label "space rock" feels like an understatement for ...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets in our solar system, though there are likely many more. The most famous of the bunch is Pluto, way out beyond the ...
When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this strange and beautiful planetoid. As the largest object in the Main Asteroid ...
The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1 percent ...
Other than fictional representations, like Harry Vanderspeigle in SYFY and USA Network's Resident Alien (now streaming on Peacock), as far as we know, life has only ever arisen here on Earth. But the ...