According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

Billions of years ago, a migrating Jupiter tore through the young solar system, flinging a barrage of asteroids towards the ...

Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in ...

Measuring roughly 95 feet across, the rock belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that cross Earth’s path ...

An asteroid named 2025 ME92 is set to fly past Earth on July 31. It will maintain a safe distance of 3.19 million kilometers. NASA and ISRO are monito ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other ...

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...