We all know that asteroids are out there, that some of them come dangerously close to Earth, and that they've struck Earth ...

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

They sometimes get pushed out of the belt and can end up all over the place — like this one.How do scientists track potentially dangerous asteroids?A telescope in Chile discovered the asteroid ...

Scientists believe they're the leftovers from the solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.There are so many asteroids orbiting between Mars and Jupiter — millions of them — that this region is ...