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 ...

Astronomers have identified a rare and unusually fast asteroid racing through the inner solar system. Known as 2025 SC79, the ...

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

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

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 ...

What size asteroids can astronomers detect from Earth that could potentially pose a threat to our planet? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have created highly detailed images of 42 of the solar system's largest asteroid belt objects, including Ceres which has a diameter twice as long as the Grand Canyon. The team used the ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. About 66 million years ago, an estimated 6-mile-wide (9.6 kilometers) object slammed into Earth, ...