Now, researchers have spotted an asteroid that never really ventures all that far from the Sun, even at its further point. The object, known as 2019 LF6, completes an orbit of our star every 151 ...

The spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx had an impromptu close encounter with the Sun as it follows a newly crafted route to a second asteroid, using one of its solar arrays for shade.

Today, most people call the bits of rock and metal that didn’t make the cut, but still orbit the Sun, asteroids. (The word ”asteroid” means ”star-like.”) You could also call them planet ...

"The only time it's somewhat bright is when it's interior to Earth, near the sun." Currently, 2022 AP7 crosses Earth's orbit only when our planet and the asteroid are on opposite sides of the sun ...

After looping around the sun and having a rendezvous with another main belt asteroid — this one named after Donald Johanson, one of the paleontologists who discovered the Lucy skeleton — the ...

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 ...

UNITED STATES: In a bold move to combat the devastating effects of climate change, astronomer István Szapudi from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy has proposed an out-of-the-world ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Some scientists imagine that a gigantic shield could be placed in space to block the sun’s rays and lower ... floating in space, like an asteroid or some other space debris.

An asteroid has been following Earth around the sun for the last two millennia, and astronomers just noticed it. Scientists first discovered the space rock, called 2023 FW13, in March using the ...

scientists have gained more insights into the history of this asteroid and even some details about the molecular composition of the cloud from which the Sun and the solar system were born.

Here’s how it works. A "planet killer" asteroid that is hiding in the glare of the sun has finally been detected, and the giant space rock could smash into Earth one day. The 0.9-mile-wide (1.5 ...

Scientists have discovered a large asteroid within Earth's orbit that was previously unseen because it was hidden by the sun's glare. In a study published in The Astronomical Journal, scientists ...