Nysa has a strange, three-lobed structure with two prominent valleys wrapped around it.

In a surefire sign Hollywood has reached the desperation stage of its insatiable hunger for video game properties to swallow up and spit out...

Ever had something named after you? Imagine that honor being a "minor planet."This week marks 32 years since the International Astronomical...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has snapped a new set of Mars photos.

The asteroid 1998 SH2 is actually not an asteroid at all.

Researchers identified the Chicxulub impactor as an exceptionally rare type of asteroid that wouldn't have triggered a mass extinction in th...

Up to 90% of Earth's population may be able to see the enormous "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis zoom past our planet in less than three year...

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It's sort of like Armageddon, but with less oil drills.

The encounter marks a new phase for Hayabusa2, which completed its primary mission in 2020 after returning samples from the asteroid Ryugu t...

Astronomers say a large asteroid will soon harmlessly zip past Earth

Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the aste...

Elliott Smith spent much of his life turning loneliness and longing into timeless songs. More than two decades after his death, the singer-s...

Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury hosts water ice at its poles. Now scientists may know how it got there.