Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

Heavenly questions China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission Tianwen-2 will first return samples from an asteroid, then explore a mysterious comet-like object.

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid that acts like a comet.

JWST, already revolutionizing astronomy, is also helping us see the invisible threats lurking in the asteroid belt. To learn more, check out the research paper, watch the video below, or find Tiny ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day ...

Bennu is both an old and a new asteroid. Like all of the millions of other objects in the asteroid belt, it formed 4.5 billion years ago when our solar system was just accreting.

New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction ...

Sorry everyone, it’s not an alien spaceship. 'Oumuamua was discovered in our solar system in 2017 and quickly fell out of view, but not out of the public’s consciousness. The mysterious ...

The James Webb Telescope eyes a new asteroid belt — in another star's solar system The new space telescope is so powerful that it can spot not merely exoplanets, but distant asteroid belts as well ...