Traveling from one star to another is currently impossible to achieve within a human lifetime. But some projects are ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ... Dec. 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of ...

Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, have made a final Earth-side pit ...

Russian scientists discovered over 400 potentially dangerous asteroids and performed over 1,000 measurements of small celestial bodies in 2024, the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics under the ...

In the distant space out beyond the orbit of Jupiter lurks a strange object. Its name is Chiron, a type of outer Solar System body known as a centaur. But even among its fellow centaurs, Chiron is ...