World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

The asteroid, also known as 469219 Kamo'oalewa, orbits the sun, so it remains a constant companion of Earth. It is too ...

The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and would easily take out a major city, causing cataclysmic disaster that ...

Discover the first images from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory and learn about what it's new mission is for space.

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...