NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

One of the recipients honored is Dave Samuels, left in this 2012 photo with other citizen scientists who established the first CAMS station at Fremont Peak Observatory (FPO) in California. Dave has ...

NASA has named 27 asteroids after Black, Hispanic and Native American astronauts and a cosmonaut to recognize their significant contributions to “expand our horizons beyond Earth and to inspire the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

Earth's most dangerous asteroids might not be speeding in from deep space — they could be quietly circling alongside Venus, hidden by the Sun’s glare. A new study reveals that dozens of these stealthy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may look like Earth’s twin, but Venus is keeping secrets. New research suggests that dozens—possibly hundreds—of asteroids are ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space exploration—or even be mined for valuable resources. By analyzing rare meteorites ...

Martin Connors has received funding from NSERC and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Canadian Space Agency. He is currently a self-funded academic visitor at UCLA. In late 2024, ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...

Space can be a dangerous place, with massive rocks hurling through the solar system at fast speeds, some of which may be headed in our direction. NASA and other agencies keep a close watch on the ...

Back in the earlier days of the internet, there was a viral video from a creator called Bill Wurtz called "the history of the ...