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

Before it shattered over Germany, the asteroid 2024 BX1 was clocked rotating once every 2.6 seconds – the fastest spin we ...

Many asteroids can be traced back to their parent body – the planet or moon they broke off from. But for the first time, ...

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

Companies ranging from Blue Origin to a startup are proposing missions to visit an asteroid before it makes a very close ...

The 2,000-foot-wide asteroid 2013 NK4 just made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history, sailing by at about eight ...

In a brand new discovery, scientists from the University of Arizona were able to trace the origins of an asteroid back to a ...

A small international team of planetary scientists has found evidence supporting the theory that the near-Earth asteroid Kamo ...

When scientists discovered the asteroid Kamo’oalewa in 2016, they almost immediately suspected it might have once been a part ...

Skywatchers will be able to get a glimpse of the asteroid 2013 NK4 in the night sky this week if they use a telescope.

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

Today, we're exploring a hypothetical yet terrifyingly possible scenario: a massive asteroid strike on Earth.