Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive collisions.

Astronomers who have debated why these globular icy objects look the way they do finally have an answer ...

A student has unraveled a long-standing cosmic enigma concerning some of our solar system’s most peculiar objects: icy ...

NASA on Thursday walked back a prediction that an asteroid had a "small, but notable" chance of impacting Earth or the moon ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening ...

Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

On December 22, 2032, a sixty-metre-wide asteroid may strike the Moon. If this happens, it will not only produce a visible flash, easily spotted from Earth, but will likely be followed by periodic ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The space rock known as "2026 CC" measures ...