A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

THE Taurid meteor shower is set to peak tonight, casting “slow and bright” shooting stars across the sky. These fireballs, ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

"Solar system formation models using the new solar composition successfully reproduce the compositions of large Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, in light of the newly ...

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.

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

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

In Asterogues, pick your character from a band of outcasts banished to the Asteroid Belt, dodge and shoot your way through a ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...