Explore Earth's cutting-edge defenses against asteroid impacts in this comprehensive overview. Learn how NASA and ESA are ...

The Minor Planet Center has confirmed the addition of 28 newly discovered moons of Saturn. Saturn now has 117 moons and Jupiter has 95. Corey Powell notes that if we ...

With the discovery of several more moons around the gas giant, Jupiter has narrowly beat out Saturn as the moon king. For now, at least. Reading time 2 minutes Jupiter is a superstar in our solar ...

Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ...

The unusual comet—which is to pass Earth again in the coming weeks—is only the third known object to visit us from outside the solar system.

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Space Age, an asteroid has been named “Astronautica.” Minor planet number 100,000 (also known as 1982 SH1) was chosen for this honor because ...

An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth's atmosphere, and while it wasn't dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected right ...