The asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as ...

MIT astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, “decameter,” asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

By reverse-engineering James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exoplanet data, a team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny ...

Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to ...

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

This breakthrough is especially timely, as NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey identifies around 2,000 near-Earth asteroids annually.

Test your knowledge on our solar system, from the biggest and smallest planets to the behemoth mountain on Mars.

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

NASA's JPL reports three asteroids approaching Earth on December 11, 2024, offering valuable opportunities for scientific ...

Today, the office's goals include detection of potentially ... Generally, icy comets formed in the outer solar system while rocky asteroids formed closer to the sun, all of which is of interest ...

Ceres, a dwarf planet and queen of the Asteroid Belt, continues to be a fascinating world. When it was visited by NASA’s Dawn ...