In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists have observed two objects colliding around a bright star 25 light-years from Earth.

According to the team's results, mining undifferentiated asteroids (believed to be the progenitor of chondritic meteorites) ...

Based on their analysis, the team found that a type of asteroid rich in the minerals olivine and spinel could serve as an ...

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

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...