Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft made a pivotal encounter with the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson. Capturing high-resolution images ...

The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Scientists with NASA's Lucy mission continue to analyze data collected during the spacecraft's April 20 encounter with the ...

An asteroid has been named after 19th century astronomer Annie Walker, Cambridge’s first professional female astronomer.

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...