Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of small, lumpy things ...

A new study reveals that Jupiter has massive primordial form and powerful magnetic field, offering fresh insights into how it ...

NASA has tracked four asteroids set to safely fly past Earth between May 23 and 25, including one the size of a stadium.

One of the asteroids will come as close as within 120,000 miles from the Earth, soaring past at over 41,000 miles per hour.

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled for launch within the next two weeks from the Xichang ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched within the coming two weeks from the ...

Scientists have uncovered fascinating new details about the internal structures of both the moon and the asteroid Vesta using ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space.

Watch a stadium-size asteroid pass Earth today — and learn why this one isn’t 2024 YR4, the asteroid that had scientists and ...