Astronomers say the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has detected an asteroid that spins faster than other space rocks of its size.

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

Moons are common throughout the solar system, orbiting planets, asteroids, and even distant Kuiper belt objects. But could a ...

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

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

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

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

Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...

This image presents a grid of colour-enhanced astronomical observations, each depicting a circumstellar disc—structures of dust and gas surrounding stars. Every square in the grid represents a ...

This image presents a grid of color-enhanced astronomical observations, each depicting a circumstellar disc—structures of dust and gas surrounding stars. Every square in the grid represents a ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...