NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid currently zooming past Earth at an incredible 22,638 miles per hour. The rock, ...

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13, 2029, and space agencies are coordinating ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an ...

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...