Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

When most people imagine Earth's asteroid belt, they picture a dense ring of orbiting rocks, locked in place between Mars and ...

Kardashian read from an article quoting Aldrin—the astronaut who, alongside Neil Armstrong, became one of the first humans to ...

Where is the impactor?” The question, raised during a planetary science lecture back in 2019, struck a chord with ...

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing ...

The risk of a cosmic body striking the Earth—or exploding in the atmosphere—may be higher in 2032 and 2036, researchers have ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this means for our solar system.

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

Mars has two moons, but they're not quite like Earth's moon. That's raised a lot of questions about where they're from, ...

As 3I/ATLAS approached the inner solar system in September, the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain's Canary Islands recorded a ...

The comet, called 3I/ATLAS, is the third known interstellar object that has come through our solar system. As it flies deeper ...