This week, NASA’s has been busy tracking a trio of sizable asteroids hurtling past Earth’s orbit, one traveling as close as ...

Ukrainian scientists have discovered a massive asteroid; NASA responds. This diagram shows the orbit of asteroid 2013 TV135 (in blue), which has just a one-in-63,000 chance of impacting Earth. Its ...

The ESO's Very Large Telescope provided crucial data needed to calculate the asteroid's orbit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

The UAE’s Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt will travel more than five billion kilometres and study seven asteroids before attempting a landing on the final target ...

An infamous asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth anytime soon, but the James Webb Space Telescope recently went to get a look at it anyway. If the name of the asteroid sounds ...

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unexplored metal-rich asteroid has reignited its plasma thrusters, continuing its cruise deeper into the Solar System after switching to a backup fuel line. The $1.4 ...