When Heinrich Olbers spotted asteroid Pallas on March 28, 1802, it called into question the recent discovery of Ceres as the ...

NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in 2023, will study a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid, with new research showing that its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows the asteroid belt is eroding faster than once thought. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Lying between Mars ...

The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 23,197 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

A 53-foot asteroid will pass Earth on March 27, followed by two more flybys a day later. NASA confirms all are safe, but why are asteroids suddenly so frequent?

Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known as “2025 MN45,” is also remarkable for its speed, and is the ...

New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed to fuel some microbial metabolisms. Although there is no evidence that ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...