One of the most interesting places that one could work is around Ceres, the Queen of the Asteroid Belt, and potentially one of the biggest sources of resources for humanity's expansion into space.

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia flattened approximately 2,150 sq.km of forest. This was attributed to the airburst ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.