A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper ... if the belt is ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt.

Past studies have already established that Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to the solar system ... primary ...

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt—a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun.

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in ...

Our home, planet Earth, is part of a system of bodies that orbit a central star – the Sun. This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an ...