Preliminary research suggests asteroid 2024 PT5, which stuck around Earth for almost two months, has lunar origins ...

The majority of asteroids are located in the main asteroid belt, which circles the Sun between ... is ever on a collision course with our planet, the space agency has said that the DART method ...

Earth is saying goodbye to an asteroid that has been a "mini-moon" of sorts since late September, when it joined the planet's ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

Dwarf planet Ceres is an unusual "inhabitant" of the asteroid belt. With a diameter of around 960 kilometers, it is not only ...

But the asteroid belt itself is still an enigma ... Clues come from another planet in our solar system, where white crystals are also found on the surface. Earth. HAKEEM OLUSEYI: This mountain ...

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid ... planet—as scientists thought—16 Psyche could be an asteroid from beyond the solar system's "snow line" that migrated to the asteroid ...

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt. However, as they are relatively small ...

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