The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, in August.

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...

New simulations suggest that there are enough primordial black holes—potential dark matter candidates—in the universe for one ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own ...

New evidence suggests that billions of years ago, a star may have passed very close to our solar system. As a result, ...

Those who do catch a glimpse of the solar sail as it passes overhead can share their experience with the #SpotTheSail hashtag ...

They found that if a primordial black hole came within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could cause a slight “wobble” ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System could pave the way for new, ultrafast forms of space travel.

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3, has been fully deployed in orbit, according to the administration, and ...