Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

Saturn's Moon ... outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ... Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246 ...

they will reveal important information about the building blocks and collisional processes that formed the planets in our Solar System." Related: 'City-killer' asteroid that might hit moon has ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

Last week, NASA scientists revealed that the infamous "city-killer" asteroid that once posed a threat to Earth could now smash into the Moon ... from in the solar system. According to a team ...

However, the asteroid may still have a ~2% chance of striking the Moon instead ... asteroids that come from the outer parts of the solar system, YR4’s origins lie within the Main Belt between ...

However, some astronauts said they were far from lonely when cruising through the abyss of space. Michael Collins, who ...

A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped ...