An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...

XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

An asteroid the size of around nine reindeer - coincidentally, how many reindeer Santa Claus supposedly uses - is set to pass ...

What if our planet's future hangs by a thread? 🌍✨ This video dives into the chilling realities of asteroids and their ...

Near-Earth objects are asteroids and comets with orbits that bring them to within 120 million miles of the Sun.

The massive rock is believed to be ten storeys high and will skim past the planet at 14,743 miles per hour in the early hours ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...