Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest ...

Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...

Discovery published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science highlights challenge of contamination in space exploration ...

A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new ...

The salt crystals, consisting of rock salt, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulfate, are crucial for understanding the evolution ...

Geminid meteors will compete with the full moon, but they could light up December skies. Here's a look at what to know.

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but ...

The geological layer marks the point when the non-avian dinosaurs and many other species were killed by a cataclysmic event.