Two more Calvin-discovered asteroids have been given official names, including one named for a school in New Mexico where Calvin has an observatory and one named for a Calvin graduate who teaches at ...

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...

One of the recipients honored is Dave Samuels, left in this 2012 photo with other citizen scientists who established the first CAMS station at Fremont Peak Observatory (FPO) in California. Dave has ...

Hundreds of asteroids in our solar system have a secret moon, a European Space Agency spacecraft has discovered. ESA's Gaia mission, which is designed to map the stars in our Milky Way galaxy in ...

An angled view of the solar system with main asteroid belt discoveries in green and near-Earth objects in light blue. B612 Asteroid Institute / University of Washington DiRAC Institute / OpenSpace ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

In the early days of the solar system asteroid impacts were much more common than they are today. While the planets were still forming there were plenty of planetary construction materials still ...

They're calling them "planetary embryos". When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists believe that two asteroids might be ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than that: they show an incredible diversity in size, shape, composition and even ...