The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

LOS ANGELES — A NASA spacecraft has spied what appears to be an inactive volcano on the surface of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The volcano is about half as ...

A small asteroid measuring roughly 19 meters across has quietly shadowed Earth for approximately 65 years, orbiting alongside ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

The celestial object is what scientists call a quasi-moon — an asteroid that orbits the sun but appears to move alongside ...

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Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Proof that metal-spewing vents caused Psyche's metallic sheen includes metal flows — akin to ...