Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that could very well be made entirely of metal, a composition that ...

Dimorphos, as you might recall, was part of NASA's DART mission, a planetary defense test that saw a spacecraft intentionally ...

The first-ever mission to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche aims to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky ...

ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its ...

Many fizzle out or explode in the upper atmosphere without anyone ever hearing about it. Scientists do say a meteor may have ...

The Winchcombe meteorite, which fell to the ground in Gloucestershire in the U.K. after blazing a trail through the night sky ...

2013 NK4, for example, made its closest approach on Monday, harmlessly passing our planet by more than eight times the ...

Astronomers have employed the Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a largely unseen population of smaller asteroids in our solar ...

NASA’s NEOWISE has had a busy decade. Since its reactivated mission began on Dec. 13, 2013, the space telescope has ...