"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

A 20-year-old rock slab in a Queensland school has been found to contain an impressive collection of 66 dinosaur footprints, ...

Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for ...

Leading British scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock says that we must not be alone in the universe and that it is 'human ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.