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

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

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

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

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 ...

Although that probability has now slightly decreased, 2024 YR4 is still the only large asteroid with an impact probability greater than one per cent - making it by far Earth's biggest threat.

Ryugu, a 900-meter diameter asteroid in the Apollo belt, has recently proven useful in our search for signs of life's precursors elsewhere in our solar system. A team of researchers at Kyoto ...

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 ...

Now, astronomers will use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex ever developed, to better understand the asteroid and its trajectory. Here’s what to know. Asteroid ...

An asteroid that's big enough to wipe out a city ... (That's just a pothole compared with the moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, which spans more than 1,500 miles (2,400 km ...