From exploring the Moon to revealing mysteries of the solar system, space agencies around the world are gearing up for an ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by ...

With the James Webb Space Telescope and updated processing techniques, researchers have detected asteroids just tens of ...

Illustration of the main asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and JupiterNASA NASA's powerful James Webb Space ...

2024 was studded with record-setting scientific discoveries. From tracing the origins of glow-in-the-dark animals to developing the world’s fastest microscope, these superlative feats captured our ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

As I write this, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is making its long journey to an asteroid named 16 Psyche. When it arrives, it may confirm the presence of minerals which, when multiplied by the current ...

Oumuamua’s speed and path around the Sun don’t match a typical asteroid, but it also has no bright tail or nucleus (icy core) ...

The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a ...

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.