Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

Planets and asteroids circle around not one ... Why do some planet-forming disks creep onto their own stars? The three ...

We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks," asteroids from the triple star system Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is the closest star ...

"Really, Euclid is not only a dark universe detective, it's also a time machine. We will look back 10 billion years in cosmic ...

One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting ...