Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

Summer nights offer lots of interesting sights this month. Mercury and Mars are on show in the evening twilight. Both Uranus ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

This interview was conducted in October 2023. As the International Space Station approaches 25 years of continuous human ...

The Oort cloud has sent its biggest comet yet towards the inner solar system, and it is travelling at an insane speed, ...

NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus while making its way to Saturn. Taking advantage Venus's gravity, Cassini gained ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, Ceres appeared dry and rocky, its surface marked by craters and dents.

“Understanding the asteroid belt is really looking into the past, into the formation of the solar system, and into all the dynamics that happened at that time,” said Peter Jenniskens, coauthor ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

The asteroid belt we observe today represents less than 1% of its original mass, with Jupiter having ejected most of the material. This dynamic relationship between Jupiter and the asteroid belt was ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter where over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer circle the Sun. Those rocks originate from a small number of ...