Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to ...

But the gas giant, mostly known for its spectacular rings, may have cheated a little to fit in with its contemporaries, ...

A giant 500-foot asteroid is coming toward the Earth at breakneck speed and will make its closest approach on October 28, ...

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...

Many have mineralogical features indicating they were heavily shocked, scorched and degassed before gradually cooling, implying they were liberated from a giant asteroid — at least 100 ...

When your spacecraft is way out there racing along millions of miles from Earth and checking an asteroid for rich metals, one ...

"The Trojan asteroid was in the process of gravitationally 'bouncing' between the giant planets when it got snagged by Saturn." Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as ...