The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams tells John Dickerson about her extended stay in space with crewmate Barry "Butch" Wilmore aboard ...

A nearby planetary system is seen in detail in our first look at an asteroid belt outside our solar system in infrared light ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...