Astronomers discover asteroid 2025 PN7, earth's latest quasi-satellite, revealing insights into planetary dynamics and ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept. 18) to see live views from the organization's robotic telescopes located ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

It is now named asteroid 2023 CX1, marking the first cosmic object from discovery to destruction, and then to the collection of its meteorite fragments. The object was only detected a few hours before ...

Material collected from an asteroid via spacecraft closely matches the heavier elements of the sun, providing scientists with ...

On February 13, 2023, the sky across France and England was briefly illuminated by a small meteor burning. It was slightly ...

This summer, something surprising took place in a quiet Georgia neighborhood. A bright fireball suddenly streaked across the daylight sky, taking everyone by surprise. Soon after, there was a loud ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...