The majority of these asteroids are located within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However ... these prices could ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

To celebrate the successful launch of NASA's Europa Clipper mission, the agency's Astrobiology program has released a new ...