When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

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

Researchers were able to determine that the asteroid came from the inner Asteroid Belt, the region between Mars and Jupiter, ...

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The IAU (International Astronomical Union), an international non-governmental research organization and global naming authority for celestial objects ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have found that it contains a remarkable mix of materials — some of which ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life.

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

Asteroids, comets, and meteors differ in origin and behavior—remnants of our Solar System that sometimes create dazzling sights in Earth’s skies.

New research on a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu — a small portion of which should arrive in Canada soon — is ...

Fluids may have flowed within the parent body of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu more than one billion years after it formed.