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

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Daksh Malik, a young boy from Noida, India, recently discovered an asteroid through the International Asteroid Discovery ...

Daksh Malik, a Class 9 student, made the initial detection of the asteroid, now temporarily named ‘2023 OG40’, located in the ...

Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, contain sodium carbonate. The Cassini mission measured the same mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.