In the intervening years the capsule had travelled to Bennu, a small asteroid in an orbit which ... of gas and dust that collapsed to form the sun. They are thought to have changed hardly at ...

Phaethon, the source of the Geminid meteor shower, has intrigued scientists for years because it’s an asteroid that behaves like a comet. New research may reveal the reason why this oddball gets ...

Gif: (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Introducing 2019 LF6, an asteroid so close to the Sun that a year lasts only 151 days. Known as an “Atira” asteroid, its orbit falls entirely inside Earth’s ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered a giant asteroid hiding in the glare of the sun that might one day cross paths with Earth The 0.9-mile-wide (1.5 kilometers) asteroid is the ...

Astronomers have discovered an unexpected, novel kind of triangle in the sky — one whose points are the sun, Uranus and the first "Trojan asteroid" ever seen near the tilted planet. The ...

Last week an asteroid known as 4179 Toutatis passed by Earth at a relatively close distance, as far as these things go. As it tumbled in space, getting as near as 4.3 million miles or 18 times the ...

The asteroid orbits the sun in 113 days, giving it the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and the second shortest orbital period for any object in the solar system. The only object in ...

But University of Hawaii cosmologist István Szapudi has an even more far-out idea: place a 372,000-mile-wide sun shade tethered to a captured asteroid between Earth and the sun to reduce the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in ... of times brighter than our sun and some 700 times bigger.

What they mean by "year" is the time it takes the asteroid to complete a full orbit around the sun. The asteroid, known as 2019 LF6, orbits the sun once every 151 days. The asteroid's orbit takes ...

Before it finally goes out, scientists say, our Sun will abruptly become so bright, it'll grind the entire asteroid belt down into dust — obliterating it with the ferociously bright light of a ...

ForbesA Spectacularly Rare 'Christmas Star' Is Coming In December As Two Worlds Align After SunsetBy Jamie Carter 16 Psyche orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.