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 ...

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

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 ...

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

NASA has released the first high-resolution images of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing its unusual peanut-like shape following a key encounter by the Lucy spacecraft earlier this year.

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

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

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

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