In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object's orbit around its larger companion asteroid. We already knew that the Double ...

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...

Astronomers have confirmed the presence of a new interstellar object hurtling through our solar system, on a trajectory that brings it closer to the Sun than any interstellar visitor before it. The ...

A recently identified asteroid is capturing astronomers' attention with its frantic race around the Sun. Discovered under unique observation conditions, this celestial body named 2025 SC79 stands out ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system, carries a chemical signature that does not match what astronomers typically see in comets born ...

The object, the latest “quasi-moon” detected by astronomers, could be with us for almost another 60 years. By Robin George Andrews The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as ...