New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...

The majority of these asteroids are located within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However, there are also ...

The last time a human visited the moon was in December 1972 during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Since then, there have been many ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

But NASA wants to show that faster-than-sound travel is possible without the annoyance of the boom, which is where its X-59 ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

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

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

Rather than being skeptical of technology and trying to slow down its adoption in society, we should do what we can to ...