Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

The asteroid is hurtling towards us at a zippy 15,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

YR4: everything to know about the potential "city killer" space rock that has a 2.3% chance of striking Earth on Dec. 22, ...

The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

The solar system could be packed with 1 million alien visitors, space rocks shaken away from our cosmic neighbor Alpha ...