Take the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu. Japan’s space agency (JAXA) confirmed that both are carbon-filled, rubble piles after ...

Asteroids have long been described as the leftover pieces from the solar system’s early construction. They are like the ...

NASA confirmed the space rock, measuring about 180 feet wide, will pass on 29 August. It will come within 2,810,000 miles of Earth while travelling at 30,205 miles per hour.

By using JWST, researchers obtained the highest-quality light spectrum from Polana in the near-infrared; this was compared to ...

Two very different asteroid families may share the same ancient roots, linked by a rare mineral fingerprint and revealed ...

REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

A newly published paper, led by IPAC scientist Joe Masiero, provides evidence that two kinds of asteroids likely formed in ...

Earth will soon experience close encounters with three large asteroids, although none are expected to collide with our planet ...

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system’s main belt, down to the size of around a kilometer in diameter. But smaller asteroids were ...

Using their approach, the team was initially able to find eight known asteroids from the belt before finding 138 new asteroids all in the decameter-size class.

Of the 11 solar system objects uncovered by the team of students and teachers at Dyal Singh Public School, the IASC has recognized one as a provisional MBA discovery.