They're calling them "planetary embryos". Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between ...

The most powerful space telescope ever built is peering into some of the deepest realms of the universe. It will also now ...

Atari has partnered with watch maker Nubeo to release a limited edition Asteroids Watch that puts imagery from the classic arcade game on your wrist.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

enabling the exploration of a new population of asteroids (see figure 3). "This is a whole new region of space we are exploring thanks to modern technologies," adds Artem Burdanov, lead author of the ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Elon Musk's Tesla, for example, was initially thought to be a near-Earth asteroid that would approach within just under ...

The fragments then formed Bennu and other "rubble pile" asteroids - loose amalgamations of rocky material rather than solid .