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

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 ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...