Wollaston named it palladium after the asteroid Pallas that was discovered in 1802, which was named after Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, useful arts and prudent warfare. Palladium has ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...

Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red Planet's tiniest moon. The European Space Agency's Hera mission was ...

Fortunately, thanks to the Earth's atmosphere acting as a natural shield, instead of crash landing on the ground, the asteroid burns up and produces an impressive light show, streaking across the ...

There were dramatic scenes in the skies over Northern Ireland on Friday morning as the the full Moon passed into Earth's shadow. Some BBC weather watchers who were up before dawn were able to capture ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could ... AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic asteroid is packed and ready to lift off. The strong-willed director of NASA ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could ... The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.