Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

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

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

A team of researchers has outlined how a new "direct fusion drive" propulsion system could allow us to reach Sedna this ...

Why read boring paper when you could listen to audio signals beamed into your brain via machine? Now THAT is sci-fi.

An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian woman astronomer whose pioneering work at the University of Cambridge has ...

That puts it in the Hadean eon – Earth’s chaotic infancy, when the planet’s surface simmered with volcanic fury and asteroid impacts were frequent enough to ruin any early landscaping efforts. Until ...

Amazon is boldly going where few have gone before, launching its Project Kuiper satellites into orbit to challenge Elon ...

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

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...