Asteroids are more than just space rocks—they come in many shapes, sizes, and compositions, with some even defying scientific ...

"This is five times more than all the astronomers in the world discovered during the last 200 years since the discovery of ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including a ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

“The asteroids predate the planets, by definition. And we have 60,000 meteorites from the asteroids.” His study, he says, is the first to consider the ages of all those meteorites on Earth.

Ryugu and Bennu are two different near-Earth asteroids, but new research has suggested they were likely once part of the same larger asteroid “parent body.” The asteroids have the distinction ...