“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby. NASA released the images on Monday, a day ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...

This 150-million-year old space rock may look like a badly-shaped potato but studying it could help scientists understand how ...

A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach to an asteroid in the main belt on Sunday afternoon, in the second of several ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...