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 ...

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

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

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

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

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

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

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...

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

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

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...