The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Estimates have been made by comparing the nature of angrites to the howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites, which originate from the Vesta parent body, whose radius is larger than 162 miles ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...

Scientists study these features to unders... NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta revealed mysterious gullies on its surface. New lab experiments, simulating Vesta's harsh vacuum conditions ...

Much can change when it comes to the potential impact and danger of Asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth, so let's take a ...