Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Look at it this way — there's around a 98 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit that brought it close, but it never actually entered ...

“We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the moon, but the smoking gun was when we found out that it was rich in silicate minerals – not the kind that are seen on asteroids ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...