"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 ...

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

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

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...