Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per ...

Dust returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission reveals rare, water-rich CI chondrite meteorite fragments—found on the Moon for ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

On Thursday and Saturday, two different asteroids will hurtle past Earth at close range. You can watch them both live.

Recent research suggests that small, carbon-rich asteroids could be invaluable economic and scientific resources, offering ...

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

A sleep-inducing molecule humans use to make proteins was found, along with other amino acids, on an asteroid named Bennu.