Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved ... decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect ...

In a remarkable event captured on home security footage, a meteorite crashed onto the driveway of a Canadian couple's home, ...

PT5, initially believed to be a tiny asteroid, likely originated from the Moon. Discovered in 2024, PT5's reflectance and ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts ...

Arrokoth is composed of two separate bodies, 3 and 9 miles across. In the distant past they rotated so slowly about each other that their mutual gravitational attraction caused them to come together ...

6, 2024 — A new study shows the benefits of coordinating the siting of solar farms, wind farms, and storage systems ... of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets ...

Solar System: Explore your knowledge about the solar system by solving the questions and answers provided below in the article. The solar system consists of stars, the Sun, 8 planets, dozens of ...