Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes rush to tra ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

New findings offer clues about the ancient origins of asteroids and their potential role in the formation of terrestrial ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt ... days of our cosmic neighborhood. "We identified two large asteroids that show similar spectral features to angrites [some of the solar system's oldest ...

Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk ... understand about the beginnings of our solar system,” Nicky Fox, associate ...