Like the ancient Egyptian queen it was named for, the asteroid Kleopatra has birthed twins — a pair of moons that have helped scientists learn that the huge space rock is a rubble pile rather than a ...

The asteroid Kleopatra, like its namesake, the last pharaoh and queen of Egypt, gave birth to twins — two moons probably spawned by the asteroid sometime in the past 100 million years. A team of ...

The most detailed telescope photographs yet of the asteroid Kleopatra — named after the ancient Egyptian queen — clearly show its weird “dog-bone” shape, and astronomers say their studies of it could ...

This image provides a size comparison of the asteroid Kleopatra with Chile. The top half of the image shows a computer model of Kleopatra, a “dog-bone” shaped asteroid which orbits the Sun in the ...

Astronomers have gotten their closest look yet at an unusually shaped asteroid orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. The strange asteroid, named ...

An artist’s impression of the ‘dog-bone asteroid’ over Italy (Credits: ESO/M. Kornmesser/Marchis et al.) A bizarre asteroid that looks like a giant dog bone has been captured by astronomers. The space ...

It’s true: 124 million miles (200 kilometers) might be a long way for your dog to fetch this cosmic bone. But thanks in part to two powerful telescopes, astronomers were able to inspect the dog-bone ...