Some seriously large asteroids have threatened Earth before. Some of these asteroids have little chance of hitting us but ...

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

NASA is experimenting with Invisible beams of light to transmit data to Earth, which can pack 10 to 100 times more ...

NASA has announced that asteroid 2024 TY21, measuring approximately 40 feet wide, will pass Earth safely today at a distance ...

Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

Scientists have found where most meteorites comes from. One of them, known as the Massalia family, is responsible for 37 per ...

The Ramses mission would rendezvous with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth.

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

Researchers found that 70% of meteorites originate from three asteroid families formed by recent collisions. They have ...

2 new papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...