Prepare to get schooled If you have kids in school, or even if you don’t, you’ve probably realized that there’s a lot about ...

A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft ...

Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt are bodies smaller than planets that orbit the sun. Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a ...

temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost two months before the forces of gravity return it to a vast field of space rocks known as the Arjuna asteroid belt that follows a similar orbital path ...

The asteroid, referred to by scientists as 2024 PT5, comes from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which contains rocks that follow an orbit quite similar to Earth’s. Unfortunately, the second moon is going to ...

Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, is harbouring molecules of life and might be the next potential target for study The asteroid belt that sits between Mars and Jupiter might be holding the ...

Millions of asteroids are floating around in space. Find out what you know about these relics of our solar system. (Jungmin Ryu for The Washington Post) Warning: This ...

2024 PT5 is part of "the Arjuna asteroid belt, a secondary asteroid belt made of space rocks that follow orbits very similar to that of Earth at an average distance to the sun of about 93 million ...