Not all asteroids are simple space rocks. Some spin too fast, others change course, and a few behave in ways scientists ...

Checking in with the OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return team and scientists from SPACEWATCH. We visit the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory to learn about recent missions to visit ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

Far from our own solar system, astronomers have finally watched what planetary scientists have long predicted but never ...

June 30, 2015, was the first “Asteroid Day” — a “global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet” from ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

We may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our orbit. Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech ...

An angled view of the solar system with main asteroid belt discoveries in green and near-Earth objects in light blue. B612 Asteroid Institute / University of Washington DiRAC Institute / OpenSpace ...

In 2023, scientists managed to discover quite a bit about asteroids. Here are 11 of the biggest updates. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

On Thursday and Saturday, two different asteroids will hurtle past Earth at close range. You can watch them both live.