"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, ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

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

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth's vicinity ... Most spectacularly, in 2022, its Double Asteroid ...

Modern weather radars detect meteorite falls, confirming shocking daytime flashes and guiding precise recoveries.

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...