Trojan asteroids are a class of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrange Point in a planet’s orbit around the sun. According to NASA, a Lagrange Point is essentially a position in space where ...

Related: Collisions could increase chance of 'God of Destruction' asteroid Apophis hitting Earth Wiegert explained that Trojan asteroids are space rocks that share a planet's orbit, either ...

Additionally, because the orbit of this Saturnian Trojan is unstable, Saturn seems to be a terrible parent that will lose this cosmic hanger-on in around 1,000 years. That means astronomers will have ...

Furthermore, Wiegert explained that Trojan asteroids are space rocks that share a planet's orbit, which is either remaining ahead of or behind the planet.

The space probe, which is destined to explore the Trojan Asteroids near Jupiter, will complete the slingshot on the first anniversary of its launch. The technique is needed to give Lucy extra ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Abstract: We analyse 1187 observations of about 860 unique candidate Jovian Trojan asteroids listed in the 3rd release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Moving Object Catalogue. The sample is ...

A small international team of astronomers and astrophysicists has confirmed that asteroid 2019 UO14 is a Trojan asteroid of Saturn. The team has posted a paper describing their study of the ...

Bill Dingus ’81, a Rice University alumnus, and his wife Mary Anne have pledged $1 million to support the university’s Human ...