A student has unraveled a long-standing cosmic enigma concerning some of our solar system’s most peculiar objects: icy “snowmen” that populate its outer reaches, according to The Independent.

A strange metal rich asteroid called Psyche may be the exposed core of an ancient failed planet, and NASA’s mission could finally reveal what lies beneath its battered surface.

China’s Tianwen-2 probe operating normally on approach to asteroid China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is operating normally on its way to a near-Earth asteroid ahead of sampling later this year, according ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and dust. These objects move on .

Astronomers who have debated why these globular icy objects look the way they do finally have an answer ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday7Asteroid 7 Iris reaches opposition at 1 P.M. EST today. Now ...

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice and rock. For years, scientists wondered how these delicate two-lobed shapes ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science. Hosted by Dr. Mike Reed, Astro Brief focuses on astronomical ...

On November 1, 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a ...

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive collisions.

NASA experts warned that human beings are vulnerable to thousands of hidden “city-killer” asteroids. A new space telescope may improve detection, but we currently lack tools to stop a threat.