Cratered surfaces across our solar system reveal signs of ancient impacts, but mysterious gullies on Vesta might have formed ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

In Greek mythology, a centaur is a creature that’s half-human, half-horse. Now, scientists have used NASA’s most powerful ...

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

Get ready for a spectacular start to 2025, as one of the most active meteor showers in the astronomical calendars is set to light up the skies.

They usually orbit within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to NASA. Comets are small sun-orbiting bodies that contain ice and usually get vaporized when they approach the ...

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

activity duration and distribution within the asteroid belt, for example — so that they can be better used to trace ice in the solar system in general." Astronomers discover 7 new 'dark comets ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...