NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...

The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.

Scientists have discovered where Earth's water comes from, and say that it wasn't brought to the planet by asteroid impacts ...

As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

Scientists believe they're the leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago. There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is ...

Billions of years ago, when the solar system was forming, space dust and debris fused ... These rubble remnants in their pristine forms make up a rocky world — the Asteroid Belt— in the vast expanse ...

Solar Wave Squeezed ... unidentified source regions in the asteroid ... Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb ...