The near-Earth asteroid Eros will pass by the galaxy Andromeda this evening. The rare event will be streamed live.

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It’s time to say hello to an old friend again. The first near-Earth asteroid ever discovered by humans, 433 Eros, will have a ...

Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

When a meteor flashes across the night sky, it’s more than a beautiful streak of light. It’s a delivery from deep space—an ...

A man searching for gold in Australia instead unearthed a 17-kilogram meteorite, estimated to be 4.6 billion years old. This ...

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...

David Hole thought he had struck gold with his metal detector but what he really discovered was far rarer - but it would take ...

A million-to-one find near an old Australian Gold Rush prospecting area turned out to be something far rarer than gold – a ...

Bennu itself is a fascinating “jigsaw piece” of the early solar system. This third-of-a-mile-wide space rock is likely a ...