The asteroid named 2025 FA22 was once categorised as potentially hazardous and is said to fly by Earth on September 12.

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

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Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has ...

An asteroid called 2023 CX1 underwent a single explosion, hinting that it had an unusual structure that might be more ...

While there’s no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life on Ceres (or anyplace but Earth), a new study published in Science Advances suggests Ceres may have had conditions suitable for life between 4 ...

It’s all about the encounter physics.” With those words, MIT Professor of Planetary Sciences Richard Binzel emphasized the ...

Astronomers have discovered that the nearby star Epsilon Eridani has two rocky asteroid belts and an outer icy ring, making it a triple-ring system. The inner asteroid belt is a virtual twin of the ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system’s asteroid belt on Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there. Dawn first entered the belt (whose lower boundary may be defined as the greatest ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted ...