NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid, “2025 XF1,” which is rapidly approaching Earth this week. With speeds of ...

The solar system contained millions of asteroids, but only a handful rewrote scientific assumptions. Objects like Apophis ...

Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...

The 84-foot-diameter space rock—dubbed "2025 XM"—is hurtling through the solar system at a zippy 9,753 miles per hour.

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

Water has been found on the surface of two asteroids for the first time, scientists said in a new paper. Two silicate-rich asteroids were detected by the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared ...

Life on Earth may have begun with a gift from a comet. Its existence was once threatened by an asteroid. Its future may ...

Global cooperation is, unsurprisingly for a threat that comes from the stars, essential. Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Note: The Earth, Sun and asteroids are depicted as representations, not ...

A new study from the University of São Paulo in Brazil said some asteroids orbiting Venus “can pose a collisional hazard to Earth” benmoss/Getty Experts say Venus is hiding some asteroids that could ...

Astronomers have detected three asteroids in close proximity to Earth, two of which pose a potential threat as "planet killers" because of their larger and hazardous size, but don't worry, says a NASA ...

Several asteroids are set to dash past Earth in the coming days, according to a list released by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, close encounters that are almost certain to pass harmlessly and come ...