The Main Asteroid Belt's smallest ever asteroids have been detected, as discovered in a new study. The belt is located ...

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore ...

Most meteor showers originate from the debris of comets, but a few — including the Geminids — result from the debris of ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to detect small asteroids in the main asteroid belt, significantly improving our ability to spot objects as little as 10 meters across. This new technique, ...

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

XU3, 2024 XZ11, and 2024 XL11, will safely pass Earth on December 11, 2024. NASA scientists are monitoring these asteroids to ...

Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...

A team of astronomers just spotted dozens of tiny asteroids in JWST date — including the smallest ever seen in the main belt ...

Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture for landing, even in low-gravity environments, an advance that could ­revolutionise the exploration of asteroids.

Scientists make efforts to protect our planet from the potential impact of asteroids. A study was published by a Spanish scientist in the “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” showing ...

A rock retrieved from a near-Earth asteroid is crawling with microbial life, scientists have discovered. But the bacteria on its surface almost certainly came from Earth. The sample is part of a 0 ...