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

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

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

An asteroid the size of Manhattan’s Empire State Building will safely pass on April 13, 2029, in a once every 5,000 to 10,000 ...

A chunk of rock collected from the asteroid Ryugu contains bacteria—but, unfortunately, it's not evidence of alien life.

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

Scientists simulated a situation that may offer an improved explanation for how the Red Planet ended up with small Phobos and ...

Panspermia is the hypothesis that life can survive the transfer between planetary bodies as a secondary path for life to get ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 didn't stick around for Thanksgiving, but don't be sad. It will be back... but will it ever be a second ...

Lowell Observatory astronomer and asteroid expert Nick Moskovitz said we know little about this asteroid coming by so close ...

Researchers studied tiny asteroid fragments from Ryugu, revealing that it originated in the outer solar system and evolved ...