While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

Some asteroids are quietly speeding up or veering off their predicted paths, yet telescopes see no glowing tails or hazy ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million Near Earth Objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are constantly orbiting close to our planet. Every night, astronomers track NEOs and ...

Asteroids are not just random rocks — some are massive, fast, strangely shaped, or on trajectories that make scientists pay ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured this image showing the nightside surface of Venus. A family of asteroids share the planet's orbit, and two new studies suggest that one day the space rocks could ...

This animation shows how an asteroid would appear during different phases depending on its location relative to the Sun, similar to how the Moon has phases. Approximately 4.6 billion years ago our ...

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Source - ISAS/JAXA, CC SA 4.0. This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, ...

NASA has tracked over 27,000 near-Earth objects, some over 1 kilometer in size. Several massive asteroids are expected to whiz close to Earth in the coming weeks, including one nearly the size of the ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." When you purchase through links on our ...

A study of thousands of space rocks may explain why a common type in space is so uncommon on our planet. Reading time 2 minutes Earth’s meteorite collection just got called out for being a little ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated one million Near Earth Objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are constantly orbiting close to our planet. Every night, astronomers track NEOs ...