Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

A chance to unpick the secrets of the dawn of the universe could be threatened by private companies mining on the Moon, a ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Solar masses are a unit of measurement used in astronomy to express the mass of other celestial objects in comparison to the ...

What if invisible black holes were quietly passing through our solar system without us even noticing? While that might sound like a plot from a sci-fi ... Continue Reading → ...

“By detecting the region outside of our solar system, by detecting actual galactic matter, we can start to unravel a whole ...