The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

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Chinese scientists revealed their first comprehensive plan for the near-Earth asteroid defence system at a space exploration ...

Chief designer of China's lunar exploration program Wu Weiren said during the conference that under the framework of the ...

While there’s no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life on Ceres (or anyplace but Earth), a new study published in Science ...

The space rock likely came from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and may be tied to the breakup of a larger asteroid 470 million years ago.

Those could be comets that were gravitationally pushed toward the sun and were trapped in the asteroid belt. “This is like a brand-new field of really looking at these things,” Dr. Schwamb said.