“Space is incredibly, profoundly empty,” Fuls said. “We don’t even check when we send probes through the asteroid belt.” Movies depict the belt as crowded and rock-filled, when in fact ...

As Johnny Cade, Ralph Macchio was the heart of The Outsiders — and the one who got to utter the film’s most famous line: ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Most of the time these asteroids remain restrained within that interplanetary belt by Jupiter's gravitational field, unable to coalesce into a larger body. But occasionally another asteroid or the ...

The fear of huge asteroid impacts shares similarities with the fear of flying. Though the probability of anything happening is very small, the vivid thought of such a catastrophic event occurring ...

An asteroid is a metallic or rocky body that orbits the Sun within the asteroid belt, a region of space between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids are believed to be remnants of the early formation of ...

NASA has confirmed that a 150-foot-wide asteroid, 2025 DA7, is set to make a close approach to Earth tomorrow, March 12, 2025, at 5:41 AM IST. While this celestial object will pass at a safe distance ...

The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission aims to collect asteroid samples and explore a comet, advancin... Researchers in Japan have developed a new reactor that generates hydrogen fuel using sunlight and water.

In that 2021 study, the research team suggested that the megaripples, which have an average height of 52 feet (16 meters) and an average wavelength (from one crest of a wave to the next) of 1,970 ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...