"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

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

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

The cosmos has always fascinated humanity with its vast mysterious expanse holding both beauty and potential danger. Among ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometres from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometres an hour. It ...