What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

We are visited, however, by interplanetary objects of all sizes and shapes, all of the time. And some of those objects even get captured by a planet and become moons.

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

First interplanetary object Ultimately, the first actual object to go into orbit around the Sun and stay in solar orbit was a satellite intended for the moon, Luna 1, that was launched by the USSR ...

And for almost 30 years, they built and flew the interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Venera program — carrying out rather impressive feats, even by today’s standards.

Object Details Manufacturer The British Interplanetary Society Summary This medallion from the British Interplanetary Society was awarded to Sir Arthur C. Clarke in 1995. Born in 1917, Arthur C.

Astrophysicists have been exploring the mystery of UFOs—no, not the "little green men" ones, but a strange type of large galaxy dubbed "Ultra-red Flattened Objects." First discovered by ...

Could they help us become an interplanetary species? "Earth can regularly capture asteroids from the Near-Earth object (NEO) population and pull them into orbit, making them mini-moons," the ...