Asteroids. What do you call the masses of space rocks floating in outer space that are smaller than planets and even smaller than our moon. These are called asteroids, the small airless rocky masses ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...