"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." ...

The Eta Aquariids are the debris left by a comet called 1P/Halley, or Halley's Comet, which comes around every 76 years. Its ...

Consider the dramatic visual and gravitational consequences if a large asteroid struck and fractured the Moon.

NASA is closely monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is expected to zoom past the Earth today at a speed of around 19,193 miles per hour.

2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

That was something of a surprise to the researchers: “We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think ...

Scientists believe a 'house-sized' asteroid originally thought to have a chance of hitting Earth now has double the chance of smashing into the Moon. Researchers have managed to work out the shape ...

An astronomical phenomenon which lit through skies from Bundaberg to Sydney is believed to be a stray meteor unrelated to the ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge ... time and distance have made pinpointing the satellite's location a nearly hopeless endeavor. The world's first commercial ...