See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Averting an asteroid strike will need many of the same skills we must hone to tackle climate change and future pandemics ...

trip to a space rock. NASA has said it has no intention to try to mine the asteroid but there are now a growing number of companies fighting to be the first to do so. As spaceflight has grown ...

But in April 2029, the asteroid will swing right by our planet, and a team of researchers believes that the encounter will cause landslides and quakes on the smaller rock. The team’s findings ...

Spring is a time for budding flowers, tender green leaves and baby animals. But 66 million years ago, that gentle season ...

Asteroid prospecting company AstroForge has been awarded the first-ever commercial license for operating and communicating with a spacecraft in deep space, ahead of its Odin mission that's set to ...

the ATLAS survey monitored the space rock momentarily, which was earlier nicknamed A11dc6D, before it safely entered the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. The asteroid burst into a fireball that ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant ... could literally shake up the 1,100-foot-long space rock. Asteroids that pass close to planets frequently show unexpectedly ...

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system. In other words, it was a treasure chest ...

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system. In other words, it was a treasure chest moving ...