When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

"This is five times more than all the astronomers in the world discovered during the last 200 years since the discovery of ...

In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including a ...

The ejecta field consists of an asymmetric cone of dust that exhibits streamers and filaments, as well as over a hundred ...

The researchers published their results July 11 in the journal Nature Astronomy.Their findings may help scientists better understand how asteroids change shape over time—and how these bodies migrate ...

In the glare of the sun, an unknown number of near-Earth asteroids move on unseen orbits. A new generation of space telescopes could be our best defense against potential disaster.

Retrieved asteroid samples could give insight into birth of solar system 06:41. A NASA mission that was retired in 2022 has helped scientists detect water on the surface of two asteroids.

Around 9,000 known asteroids are currently traveling in orbit close to the Earth, and some 1,000 new ones are discovered each year. According to estimates, a one-kilometer diameter asteroid may ...

There are around 1 million asteroids in our solar system, and it was previously assumed that water present on the surface would have evaporated into space long ago due to the heat of the sun.

Most asteroids, including Vesta, reside in the doughnutlike ring of the main asteroid belt that peppers the space between Mars and Jupiter. Other asteroids whirl in tight circles closer to the sun ...