Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

The study emphasises that many of these asteroids are large enough, at least 140 metres wide, to be classified as ‘city ...

Astronomers warn of hidden asteroids near Venus that evade detection, with some capable of crossing Earth’s orbit and posing ...

Look, we don’t want to anthropomorphize, but is it possible that a planet that has gone to such lengths to make life ...

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme ...

First, let’s compare the orbital characteristics of Pluto with those of other planets. Pluto has an orbital eccentricity (the degree to which its orbit deviates from a perfect circle) of 0.25, while ...

Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...

Astronomers discover asteroid 2025 PN7, earth's latest quasi-satellite, revealing insights into planetary dynamics and ...

A new program has discovered chaos in a nearby planetary system, which could explain the existence of a phenomenon ...

An international scientific team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including members of the UNIGE Astronomy Department, the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of ...