The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...

The JWST has examined Chiron, a minor planet that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune, and found unexpectedly different ices from the other objects located in that region of the Solar System.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

When astronomers realized that Ceres had many "relatives" in roughly the same region of the solar system, they began calling them asteroids or minor planets. But as you can see in the table at the ...

Major astronomy body the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) was forced to list the discovery - made by a citizen scientist - as ...

The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...