Jupiter may have once migrated closer to the Sun

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 15:44

MIT scientists have developed a map of more than 100,000 asteroids throughout the solar system which suggests that Jupiter may have once drifted much closer to the Sun.

New space map shows that `rogue` asteroids may be more common than believed

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:39

A new map developed by researchers from MIT and the Paris Observatory charts the size, composition, and location of more than 100,000 asteroids throughout the solar system, and has shown that rogue asteroids are actually more common than previously thought.

Interplanetary dust jump-started life on Earth?

Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 19:40

Dust coming from comets and asteroids may have delivered water and organics to the Earth - jump starting life on our planet, US researchers say.

`Very few asteroids in solar system may be worthy of getting mined`

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 12:22

A new study has suggested that that few asteroids are going to be worth mining.

Rare binary asteroids discovered by undergraduate students

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 17:27

Undergraduate students taking classes for non-astronomy majors at the University of Maryland have made a rare discovery- a pair of binary asteroids that orbit and eclipse each other.

Smaller asteroids can be far more dangerous than previously believed

Last Updated: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 19:25

A new research has revealed that smaller asteroids could cause bigger problems.

Why surfaces of most asteroids appear redder than meteorites

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 10:23

A scientist has claimed to have found the reason behind surfaces of most asteroids appearing redder than meteorites-the remnants of asteroids that have crashed to Earth.

Astronomers `dumbfounded` by six-tailed asteroid

Last Updated: Friday, November 8, 2013, 10:10

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a freakish asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust streaming from its body like spokes on a wheel, scientists said on Thursday.

Astronomers establish high-inclination asteroids` strength

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 15:32

Astronomers used the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) that is mounted on the Subaru Telescope to observe faint asteroids that have highly inclined orbits.

Scientist reveals `how life began on Earth `

Last Updated: Sunday, November 3, 2013, 15:41

Indian-origin paleontologist, Dr. Sankar Chatterjee, believes that he has found the answer to the question about how life on Earth began more than 3.8 billion years ago.

Call for destroying asteroids that pose threats to Earth

Last Updated: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 12:52

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi and his predecessors in New York City have asked world governments to prepare to protect humanity from asteroids on a collision course with Earth.

Early warning system to detect killer asteroids

Last Updated: Monday, October 21, 2013, 19:36

The powerful Gaia space telescope designed to create a 3D map of stars in the Milky Way will also detect killer asteroids on a potentially fatal collision course with our planet when it is launched next month.