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Car-size asteroid gives Earth a close shave in near-miss flyby (video, photo)
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days ago(Image credit: ESA) The space rock belongs to the Apollo asteroid group, whose orbits intersect with...
Gaze Into The Colossal Craters Of Mars And They Will Stare Icily Back
IFLScience· 18 hours agoThe first image (above) shows a crater in Utopia Planitia, the largest confirmed impact basin in the...
Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids | Newswise: News for Journalists
Newswise· 3 days agoThis Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158 looks like someone took a...
Mars might have an asteroid problem
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe smallest feature visible is 100 feet (30 meters) across. For this image the spacecraft position was not optimum for stereo, but it will improve over...
New evidence for Planet 9 at the fringes of our solar system
EarthSky· 2 days agoThe case is growing that a Neptune-sized planet – Planet 9 – hides deep in the outskirts of our ...
How the perils of space have affected asteroid Ryugu
Ars Technica· 2 days agoAn asteroid that has been wandering through space for billions of years is going to have been bombarded by everything from rocks to radiation. Billions...
Mars craters pop in new images from ExoMars
EarthSky· 2 days agoThe terrain of Mars has pockmarks and ripples from a variety of forces: asteroid collisions, volcanoes, wind erosion, and the movement of water and ice....
A massive, icy Mars crater stares up at a Red Planet orbiter (image)
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThere is also a much smaller crater on the left. A massive... Gas Orbiter (TGO). The result of an...
A rare risk of asteroid fastballs turns scientists into sluggers
Salon.com· 5 days agoAs Andy Rivkin, one of the team leaders, was getting ready to appear in NASA’s live broadcast of the...
Bright green fireball lights up the skies over Portugal and Spain (photos)
SPACE.com· 2 days agoThe internet is alight with footage of a meteor that sped through the night skies over Portugal and...