Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is an enormous ring of space rocks. The region, known as the asteroid belt, is home to an ...

So far, we have identified three. The first one was 1I/’Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, then Comet 2I/Borisov, in 2019. This ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be out of view of Earth, but orbiters on Mars were able to recently get a look at it.

3I/ATLAS is named for its status as one of three interstellar objects ever discovered in our cosmic neighborhood, as well as ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they're ...

Need a refresher about 3I/ATLAS? Here's everything to know about the interstellar object, including when the latest ...

NASA confirms four near-Earth asteroids will pass Earth safely, measuring from bus to house-sized, with no impact risk on 5th ...

Many people have probably wondered, are asteroids fragments of original planets? This sounds quite plausible, like a large object being shattered into many small pieces floating in space. There have ...

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 ...

The asteroid belt may seem permanent, but it is far from static. Its slow decline reveals a more violent past when more ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted with dust, forming the minerals that now make up about 80% of Bennu. Certain ...