Using the Lowell Observatory's powerful Discovery Telescope, astronomer Dr Qicheng Zhang managed to snap the mysterious ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

China is planning a kinetic impact demonstration mission to test the feasibility of defending Earth against potentially hazardous asteroids, a senior space scientist revealed at an international ...

When most people imagine Earth's asteroid belt, they picture a dense ring of orbiting rocks, locked in place between Mars and ...

HEFEI -- Chinese scientists revealed their first comprehensive plan for the near-Earth asteroid defense system at a space exploration conference held on Friday, calling for global partners to work ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this means for our solar system.

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

Mars has two moons, but they're not quite like Earth's moon. That's raised a lot of questions about where they're from, ...

As 3I/ATLAS approached the inner solar system in September, the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain's Canary Islands recorded a ...

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains ancient, ice-covered rocks that may have delivered much of Earth’s water ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.