"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.

Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by ...

An amature astronomer spotted a near Earth object and alerted authorities only to realize it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ...