Scientists have made a shocking discovery about a rare object in our solar system likened to an asteroid-comet hybrid.

The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Scientists from the University of Central Florida have used the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal that a mysterious object ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by ...

The method involves shifting multiple images of the same field of view ... As it happens, asteroids that orbit in the main asteroid belt are much brighter at infrared wavelengths than at visible ...

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 past year in aerospace was so full of exciting developments that we had a tough time picking a final five. From the rise ...

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The newfound ...