In the unassuming city of Murcia, Spain, a breakthrough has emerged that might forever alter how humanity navigates the ...

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in ...

From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...

XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

The massive rock is believed to be ten storeys high and will skim past the planet at 14,743 miles per hour in the early hours ...

The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...