According to a team of scientists co-led by Prof Maria Zuber of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Prof Jay Melosh of Purdue University, meteorites...
An international group of planetary scientists has produced the first global geologic and tectonic map of Vesta, and constructed the geologic time scale...
Scientists working on a primitive meteorite known as Semarkona have found evidence that the protoplanetary disk of the early Solar System was shaped by...
In two separate studies, geologists led by Dr Haley Sapers from the University of Western Ontario and Dr Pete Schultz of Brown University have found floral,...
A huge asteroid, up to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, say researchers...
Scientists led by Dr Felipe Braga-Ribas from Observatório Nacional/MCTI in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have observed for the first time a minor planet with...
A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed for the first time the disintegration of an asteroid.
This image shows small...
On September 11, 2013, an object with the mass of a small car hit the lunar surface in Mare Nubium, an ancient lava-filled basin with a darker appearance...
According to astronomers led by Mr Paul Brook, a PhD student from the University of Oxford and CSIRO, a small pulsar dubbed PSR J0738-4042 is being pounded...
Using very precise ground-based observations with ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT), an international team of planetary scientists has found that...
Planetary scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and European Space Astronomy have created a map of more than 100,000 asteroids throughout...
A group of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a unique multi-tailed object, labeled P/2013 P5, in the main asteroid belt.
P/2013...
A team of scientists led by Dr Franck Marchis from the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute teamed up with amateur astronomers to discover that the...
British and German astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory have detected the remains of an asteroid...
According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...
Astronomers from Canada and France have announced the discovery of the first Trojan asteroid known to share its orbit with Uranus.
This image shows the...
An object that killed the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago may have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, say researchers Prof Jason Moore and Prof...
Chicxulub, an asteroid that collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and is believed to wipe out the dinosaurs, may have triggered a global firestorm...
