This Sunday, an asteroid larger than Manhattan – large enough it could end civilization, or at least wreck a country – is ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

Researcher Noemí Pinilla-Alonso explained that the composition is uncharacteristic of objects near Neptune. Its gaseous and ...

Two asteroids, 2024 YW9 and 2024 PT5, will pass close to Earth on January 9, 2025. NASA confirms they are not a threat. The ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

Illustration by Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, NASA In 2023, data from the JWST revealed the inner workings of the asteroid belt in the Fomalhaut star system. The nearby planetary system actually has ...

Scientists have discovered a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid is 'like nothing seen before' in our solar system.

NASA reports that two asteroids, 2024 YC9 and 2024 YL1, will safely pass by Earth on January 3, 2025. Asteroid 2024 YC9, the ...