ESA's operational Mars orbiters will be observing the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas during its close encounter with Mars.

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is estimated to have a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Now a group of researchers are ...

But speaking specifically, the organization’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) division just downlinked 15 terabits of data from the Psyche Mission about 300 million miles from Earth via laser ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, should it be deflected or blown up? A paper from NASA scientists and ...

A recent study found that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is gradually shedding mass over time. This region was previously predicted to form a planet during the Solar System's birth 4.6 ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

Perseverance represents more than a machine. It is a proxy extending humanity’s senses across millions of miles to an alien ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.

Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA's retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what it means for the planet’s history ...

A new study warns of an undiscovered population of asteroids that could strike Earth with little to no warning.