Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun and were typically formed during the solar system's development ...

They found that Venusian co-orbitals are highly unstable, often switching orbital patterns in cycles lasting about 12,000 ...

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

NASA's Psyche mission and US startups are accelerating efforts to mine asteroids for valuable metals, promising vast riches ...

American space agency NASA announced the completion of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, described as a success.

Asteroid 2023 CX1 was observed in February 2023, seven hours before entering the atmosphere, and disintegrated at a very low ...

Amid the season with at least one meteor shower occurring every night, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may become visible to us in early November.

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

Researchers were able to determine that the asteroid came from the inner Asteroid Belt, the region between Mars and Jupiter, ...