A possible threat to life on Earth has been identified by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil: asteroids that share Venus's orbit but which currently can't be detected. These ...

A recent study shows the asteroid belt is slowly losing material due to gravitational forces and collisions, with ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, the was launched in 2023 to study a space rock in the asteroid belt in 2029, just sent its last ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

Learn more about the Quasi-moons and mini-moons that sometimes get caught in our orbit and how they could offer mining ...

Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.

A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to no warning.

In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...