What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Impacting ASteroids (COIAS). Developed by a team of ... it appears to be a small body in the outer solar system that crosses Neptune’s orbit. He identified the measurements and submitted them ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt. However, as they are relatively small, asteroids can be disturbed quite ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...