Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles (223 million kilometers) from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to achieve this could be to bombard the Red Planet with water-rich asteroids.

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away ...