A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The probe's first encounter will be with the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027. According to NASA, Lucy will conduct four ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers say they've spotted an object in our solar system that's believed to be from another ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

The small meteor lit up the night sky on Thursday and may have landed as meteorites across a vast area of the west Highlands.

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

World Asteroid Day is observed every year on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroids and the potential hazards they pose ...