A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Until now, 6% of meteorites had been identified ( via their compositions) as coming from the moon, Mars or Vesta, which is one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt. Where the other 94% ...

But the asteroid belt itself is still an enigma ... So when we spotted the first Kuiper Belt object, 1992 QB1, there was jumping up and down, and there was... I think we gave each other a high ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

and lies in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 5. But these objects account for only 10% of ordinary chondrite falls, and the origins of the remaining 90% had yet to be found ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

The celestial object is more than just a guest staying over for a quick visit. It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5.