When most people imagine Earth's asteroid belt, they picture a dense ring of orbiting rocks, locked in place between Mars and ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this means for our solar system.

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

An international team of astronomers have employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a nearby M-dwarf star ...

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Not everything about space is true. Our planetary scientist is here to share the truth about popular celestial myths.

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

A YouTube channel has recently released a video that aims to compare a wide range of asteroids. The smallest starts at just ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA’s Webb and Hubble space telescopes are teaming up to find out. The Rocky Worlds Director’s Discretionary Time ...

If there's another planet in the system even somewhat nearby, its weak-but-persistent gravitational influence will pull the inner world into a highly elliptical orbit. Once there, it will stretch and ...

The threat of a catastrophic asteroid impact often feels like something out of science fiction. Yet, recent events have shown just how real the danger is. In 2019, an asteroid dubbed ‘2019 OK’, the ...