Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

Asteroids have significantly impacted Earth's history through numerous collisions, shaping the planet's geography and biological trajectory. Key events include the Tunguska Event, the Chelyabinsk ...

An asteroid named 2024 WY70 is due to pass Earth this weekend. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS "Asteroids are generally too faint to have been detected by the current techniques and surveys ...

One such origin is the Main Asteroid Belt, but it's not the only place where asteroids emerge. Each object is a special case, and scientists compare them with known meteorites. Of course, you need ...

The solar system consists of stars, the Sun, 8 planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph.

"It's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter-million miles away from the Earth. So something 7.6 million miles out would be many ...

Events like this close pass over usually happen once in a decade, with Alinda one of the five largest asteroids to pass within 9.3million miles of the planet. The next one to come this close is ...