"Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt.

The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

Saturn has finally joined the solar system's other giant planets in possessing a Trojan asteroid, but it may have stolen it.

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...

The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...

Earlier on September 4, an asteroid just one metre wide entered the atmosphere as a brilliant fireball. Named 2024 RW1, the ...

Gaseous giant Saturn seems to have snatched its first known Trojan asteroid “2019 UO14” when the space rock was “bouncing” ...

Asteroid number 5376, a five-mile-wide minor planet orbiting the sun every 3.75 years, will now be known as ‘Marutiakella.’ ...

Estimated to be between 120 to 270 meters wide—roughly the size of a 70-story skyscraper—asteroid 2020 WG is considered a medium-sized Near-Earth Object (NEO).

On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...

Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.