An AI simulation of an impact shows basalt-rich (purple) and basalt-poor (green) regions. (Curtin University) The planet ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered that asteroid Donaldjohanson is a wobbling, peanut-shaped relic born from a violent ...

Five asteroids are on track to pass within 4.6 million miles of Earth in the coming days, and NASA’s planetary defense system ...

Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

There is a nonzero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening down a celestial ...

Earth may have gotten some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system, but not without ...

Astronomers don’t treat every “close approach” headline the same way the public does. On June 9, two near-Earth objects, 2026 ...

Swirling among the planets in our solar system are pieces of rocky matter called asteroids. Too small to be considered planets, asteroids are a ‘hangover’ from the early formation of the solar system, ...

An ultraprecise satellite tasked with mapping more than a billion stars across the galaxy has spotted something fascinating closer to home: 352 asteroids in the solar system that likely have their own ...

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