9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation ... Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won ... increasing the likelihood of it hitting home, according to the Daily Galaxy. This fluctuating movement pattern is due to Jupiter’s gravitational pull, which alters ...

A radar image ... with Jupiter to leave the asteroid belt, even while their average distance from the sun does not change. By dipping into the inner solar system, these asteroids are often removed ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).

"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a ...

This observation triggered a fervid series of observations of the object—possibly as big as a football field—to determine that it will not hit ... with Jupiter to leave the asteroid belt ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...