It's too soon to know whether the object is a rocky asteroid or an icy comet, or how big and what shape it is.

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

The ESA says the object - which has been designated A11pl3Z - is currently several hundred million miles away from Earth, ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

A potential interstellar interloper is currently zooming toward the Sun. Its strange approach angle suggests it may have come ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

What’s underneath Meteor Crater is weirdly folded and smushed-up rock. On the Moon, the hope is to find ice. Wes Patterson leads the radar instrument team at Johns Hopkins University. "Looking for ice ...

How a 'mudball' meteorite survived space to land in the jungles of Central America "They're some of the most amazing extraterrestrial samples we have, the beads are tiny, pristine capsules of the ...

The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate threat to our planet. But hundreds of years from now, there is a small chance that Bennu could slam into Earth.

According to Bottke, almost all the impacts we have on Earth came from objects that escaped the asteroid belt. A large body broke up, perhaps through a collisional event, creating many fragments.