On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

NASA just increased the odds that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 will strike our planet in 2032. The space agency claimed ...

In a significant development, a team of scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, have discovered a ...

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The U.S. space agency said the probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 has grown to 3.1%, or a 1-in-32 chance. Earlier in January, NASA had put the chance of the asteroid impacting ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

While terrestrial ecosystems would struggle for years after an ... These events have left permanent marks on the planet’s ...

"It's a remarkable and fortuitous opportunity to understand terrestrial planet interiors," he added. The Penn State team trained JWST's spectrograph at K2-22, a star discovered by the Kepler ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

The research reveals that high-mass planets—or in other words, terrestrial planets—tend to form around stars with higher [Fe/H] and younger stars compared to low mass. Similarly, those with a ...