Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team ...

The Atlas of Space shows one star, eight planets, ten dwarf planets, moons, comets, asteroids, spacecraft and trans-Neptunian ...

An artist's concept shows asteroids orbiting close to Earth. Earth is being visited by five asteroids this week, the biggest of which each about the size of a plane. They will all likely zoom ...

Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual asteroid, somebody somewhere claims it could be an alien interstellar space ...

Field image of the achondrite meteorite GRA 06128, found in blue ice of the Graves Nunatak region of the Antarctica during the ANSMET 2006/2007 field-season. Image courtesy of the Antarctic Search for ...

With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects. By Kenneth Chang A couple of ...

NASA's DART mission proved we are able to change an asteroid's path by smashing a spacecraft into it, but exactly where we ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

Before the Earth and other planets formed, the young sun was still surrounded by cosmic gas and dust. Over the millennia, rock fragments of various sizes formed from the dust. Many of these became ...

(CNN) — Water molecules have been detected on the surface of asteroids for the first time, proving that these remnants from the formation of our solar system aren’t just dried-up space rocks. CNN — ...