Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already delivered spectacular images. On them, researchers have found an asteroid that ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

Far from our own solar system, astronomers have finally watched what planetary scientists have long predicted but never ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

Having a celebrity drop in to help commemorate an event isn’t unusual. But what if that event was the Tunguska explosion that flattened 849 square miles of Siberia in 1908? And the “celebrity” is a ...

Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...

In the early days of the solar system asteroid impacts were much more common than they are today. While the planets were still forming there were plenty of planetary construction materials still ...