It's an Earth sandwich! What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres, scientists expected to find a cold, inactive relic of the early solar system.

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a massive hidden planet far beyond Neptune, using decades-old infrared data. The object’s ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...