Marking a key milestone in the mission’s transition from final design to implementation and operational readiness ...

The curious minds at What If investigate what would happen if Earth got trapped between two asteroid belts, revealing the ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Deep in the asteroid belt lies Psyche, an object unlike anything humans have ever explored. Instead of rock or ice, this world appears to be made largely of metal—possibly the exposed core of a failed ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

Astronomers have spotted an unusual 'inside-out' planetary system where a rocky world seems to have formed far beyond the realm typically reserved for gas giants.

The Expanse envisions a future where the solar system has been colonized and a Cold War brews between Mars, Earth, and the Asteroid Belt.

NASA is currently tracking a bus-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth on January 31 at a whopping 8,478 miles per hour. Known as 2022 OC3, the space rock is estimated to be about 24 feet across ...

Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking asteroid using early images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Azernews reports, citing foreign media.

Saving the world grand strategy-style.

When Juno passed behind Jupiter from Earth's perspective, its radio signal traveled through the planet's atmosphere before ...