The largest moon in the solar system is Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter. New research suggests that an ...

There’ll be a celestial show tonight with a stadium-sized asteroid fly-by, a Harvest full supermoon and partial lunar eclipse ...

Three years ago, the spacecraft swooped in and reached out with its 11-foot (3-meter) stick vacuum, momentarily touching the asteroid's surface and sucking up dust and pebbles. The device pressed down ...

The asteroid, known as 2024 ON ... meaning the moon will appear much more prominent to us here on the surface. Asteroids like ...

The results of his study suggest that an object as small as 0.6 meters across could potentially nudge the asteroid onto a ...

During that time, the mission will observe how the surface of the asteroid changes from being in such close proximity to Earth, the European Space Agency said in July. The expedition is all part ...

There are a slew of ways that life on Earth could come to an end, but a giant asteroid smashing into the planet, wiping out ...

NASA’s Webb telescope has confirmed the presence of hydrated minerals on the surface of Psyche 16, a ... [+] massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb ...

One researcher thinks the asteroid, which is thought to have hit Ganymede 4 billion years ago, was 20 times larger than the ...

The robots that will venture out onto the asteroid’s surface aren’t rovers in the traditional sense, but they are capable of moving around. Rather than rolling along on rugged wheels ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...