Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system. In ...

Temporary flows of saltwater could explain mysterious gullies and fan-shaped deposits spotted across asteroid Vesta.

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...

A colossal asteroid is set to approach the Earth's atmosphere today and NASA has described it as "potentially hazardous." The ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

For instance, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft was expected to hit the asteroid Dimorphos at a speed typical for collisions between asteroids in the main belt ...

To search for the site of that destruction derby in the asteroid belt, researchers used NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii to scan many prominent stony-type asteroids, comparing each ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...