NASA has sent a rocket to observe an asteroid called Psyche that is thought to be rich in iron, nickel and other rare ...

It has been just over a year since Nasa sent a spacecraft after a $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid. That’s 10 quintillion ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the asteroid.

Earth's gravity briefly captured asteroid 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. This rare event, lasting from September to November 2024, a ...

A BUS-SIZED “mini moon” is in the final days of its trip to Earth’s skies – and will soon vanish until 2055. The holidaying ...

The current target is the near-Earth object 2015 XF261, a 30-metre-long asteroid tens of millions of kilometres away from Earth. Such small asteroids are an important area of study. They strike ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans, drove global darkness for years to decades, and stoked unimaginable tsunamis (thousands of meters deep ...

Planets move among the stars along the ecliptic plane, but if you wait long enough, they will return to the same location ... you might not ever have one come to your location during your lifetime.