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 ...

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

Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid with an average diameter of 340 metres will pass ~32,000 kilometres from Earth’s surface in ...

Detecting an asteroid when it was still about to hit Earth is difficult enough; finding it once it has already impacted our ...

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 ...

Creating a composite photograph of the images taken by the Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System ( CaSSIS) aboard the Trace ...

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

NASA scientists are weighing a drastic plan to launch nuclear bombs at a “city killer” asteroid that could smash into the Moon in 2032.