What begins as a mining outpost can grow into a sovereign city state drifting between the stars. In the asteroid belt, ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

A student has unraveled a long-standing cosmic enigma concerning some of our solar system’s most peculiar objects: icy “snowmen” that populate its outer reaches, according to The Independent.

Pothole-plagued roads in North Tyneside have been likened to “navigating an asteroid belt”, after a probe revealed hundreds ...

Forgot what science-fiction has told you, flying through an asteroid belt would be a major challenge for anyone.

China’s Tianwen-2 probe operating normally on approach to asteroid China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is operating normally on its way to a near-Earth asteroid ahead of sampling later this year, according ...

A strange metal rich asteroid called Psyche may be the exposed core of an ancient failed planet, and NASA’s mission could finally reveal what lies beneath its battered surface.

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice and rock. For years, scientists wondered how these delicate two-lobed shapes ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached Vesta in 2011, it found a 500-kilometer-wide world scarred by two planet-scale impacts. One crater stretches over 100 kilometers across and rises 20–25 kilometers ...

Astronomers who have debated why these globular icy objects look the way they do finally have an answer ...

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive collisions.