The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Asteroids are small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They are remnants from the early solar system and provide valuable insights into ...

De la Fuente Marcos’ paper in September suggested that the object is part of the Arjuna asteroid belt, which is made of small asteroids that have orbits around the sun similar to Earth’s orbit.

Daksh Malik, a young boy from Noida, India, recently discovered an asteroid through the International Asteroid Discovery ...

New observatories are coming online every year, many of them designed with high sensitivity to spot small asteroids. As they track faint objects, the odds of identifying more lunar fragments improve.

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...