Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

NASA's Hubble Telescope has revealed that planetary systems experience violent collisions for much longer than previously ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 ...

On Thursday and Saturday, two different asteroids will hurtle past Earth at close range. You can watch them both live.

NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Recent research suggests that small, carbon-rich asteroids could be invaluable economic and scientific resources, offering ...

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

Dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission reveals rare, water-rich CI chondrite meteorite fragments—found on the Moon for ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

A sleep-inducing molecule humans use to make proteins was found, along with other amino acids, on an asteroid named Bennu.