In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by ...

Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by ...

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

As part of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look event in June 2025, Rubin announced that it had observed thousands of asteroids cruising ...

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If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Masood Azhar, the UN-designated terrorist has issued a massive warning to India claiming that thousands of suicide bombers ...

But the "bauble" is not decorative at all — it is Manicouagan crater in the Canadian province of Quebec, a remarkably ...