While parts of southern Australia grapple with drought a central outback landmark have become saturated with travelling ...

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

Data from NASA’s Dawn mission and simulations from Purdue University claim that up to 90% of Ceres’ outer shell may be made ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, Ceres appeared dry and rocky, its surface marked by craters and dents.

Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars ... were the most alarming space rocks astronomers have discovered and studied for decades. Now that they have been ...

Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars ... were the most alarming space rocks astronomers have discovered and studied for decades. Now that they have ...

and twenty co-authors published a remarkable study that revealed the discovery of 138 tiny asteroids. Some are as small as 10 meters in diameter, hiding between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid ...