Designated as COWECP5, the asteroid burned up in the atmosphere as it streaked across the Eastern Siberia sky around 11:14 ...

Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and range in ...

An asteroid was pegged to hit Earth “imminently,” according to ... They usually orbit within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA. Comets are small sun-orbiting ...

As on Earth, Jupiter's magnetic field converges at its poles, and as on Earth, this concentration of magnetic field lines drives charged particles toward the polar regions, where they collide with ...

A team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids in JWST date — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt ...

Any object larger than about 150 meters (about 492 feet) that can approach the Earth to within this distance becomes ...

The dark ovals seem to take about a month to form and then dissipate within a couple of weeks. Planetary scientists have issued a tornado warning for Jupiter, with the discovery that magnetic ...

Planetary scientists have issued a tornado warning for Jupiter, with the discovery that magnetic vortices twisting down from the planet's ionosphere into its deep atmosphere are resulting in giant, ...

Jupiter, renowned for its iconic Great Red Spot, holds another atmospheric mystery: massive Earth-sized dark ovals of at its poles. Appearing and disappearing apparently at randomm, and visible ...

For most astronomers, asteroids are sort of seen as the vermin of the sky, in the sense that they just cross your field of ...