If you’re looking for longform science fiction which feels rooted in reality, it’s hard to find a better example than The Expanse. The novel series was written by James S. A. Corey, a pseudonym for ...

Asteroid 2025 SC79 is the size of a skyscraper and moves around the solar system at a record-breaking speed. Astronomers ...

Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard discovered the asteroid on September 27 with the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundation's Blanco 4-meter telescope. That telescope searches ...

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has found a hidden asteroid "moon" swirling around the larger main belt asteroid Dinkinesh, affectionately known as Dinky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

We're long past the days when we believed all the wonderful things that make up planet Earth were somehow born here, and that we're the center of the Universe. We now know everything from life itself ...

Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system, according to an international team of ...

NASA’s Dawn mission shows where ice has been detected in the northern wall of Ceres’ Juling Crater. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / ASI / INAF A Mashable series about the curious ...

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency has today unveiled plans to build a spacecraft to go explore the main Asteroid belt for the first time—and land on a rare “red” asteroid. The region of the solar ...

In this image, the Dawn spacecraft's three xenon electrostatic ion thrusters can be seen emitting ionized xenon's characteristic blue/magenta glow, gently propelling the probe toward the dwarf planet ...