A mysterious object discovered in the main asteroid belt in 2021 was determined to be a main-belt comet by Planetary Science ...

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

Astronomers used the Two-meter Twin Telescope to catch a "see-you-soon" image of the departing asteroid 2024 PT5.

The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...

It has been just over a year since Nasa sent a spacecraft after a $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid. That’s 10 quintillion ...

The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

Really, the only metals judged to be worthy of returning to Earth are the platinum-group metals (PGMs), which are known for ...

This secondary asteroid belt circles the sun in an orbit close ... "The 'see-you-soon' picture of 2024 PT5 was acquired on Monday by Dr. Miquel Serra-Ricart, a member of our collaboration ...

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...

Maruthi Akella, a professor at the University of Texas, has been honored with the naming of an asteroid located more than a ...

Astronomers have taken a farewell photo of the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been hovering in the outskirts of our orbit for ...

29 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which follows a similar orbital path around the sun as the Earth. Now, as the asteroid is set to depart from view, evidence is suggesting it was visiting its ...