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

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track ...

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

Data shows the asteroid is the most threatening to Earth in modern forecasting and would cause "severe damage" to a region if ...

China's Tianwen-2 mission probe arrived at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on February 20, according to the China ...

Asteroids were responsible for extinction events hundreds of millions of years ago on Earth, providing no shortage of ...

The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track its course. But the chance of an impact is still quite slim. New ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

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

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is known as the main asteroid belt. They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up ...