A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...
Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...
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 asteroid belt contains 1-2 million asteroids larger than a kilometre ... There are 35,000 such “near-Earth objects” (Neos ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.
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.
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 ...