A man kept what he thought was a gold nugget for years, only to discover it was far more valuable. The Maryborough meteorite, ...

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

If a future spacecraft can confirm that they are organic, then it would virtually confirm that Ceres is producing these ...

Astronomers have detected 138 decameter-sized rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt, marking the smallest asteroids ever ...

Pan-STARRS, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, consists of two observatories in Hawaii and is designed ...

Asteroids are serious business. Just ask dinosaurs. Yes, they're no longer here. A space rock with a diameter of just a few ...

An unusual approach to spotting tiny asteroids uses James Webb Space Telescope data in a boost for planetary defense research ...

12, 2024 — A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt ... asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system ...

Astronomers used james webb telescope data to discover tiny main-belt asteroids, improving asteroid tracking and planetary ...

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt," ...

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

The object, discovered in 2021 and given the temporary name 2021 L4, orbits between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid ...