The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

An asteroid the size of around nine reindeer - coincidentally, how many reindeer Santa Claus supposedly uses - is set to pass ...

XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...

Earlier this month, researchers announced they found the smallest asteroids ever detected within the main belt, which is a ...

A 10-story building-sized asteroid, 2024 XN1, will safely pass Earth on Christmas Eve at a distance of 4.48 million miles.