Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

But arguably, it's the ugly duckling, ancient asteroids that are providing us with a better understanding of how our solar system evolved ... bodies in the main asteroid belt.

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own. These belts, analogous to the Kuiper and asteroid belts in our Solar System ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt ... be an asteroid from beyond the solar system's "snow line" that migrated to the asteroid belt. The snow line is the minimum distance ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt ... planets experienced high obliquity and high ...