A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Until now, 6% of meteorites had been identified ( via their compositions) as coming from the moon, Mars or Vesta, which is one of the largest objects in the main asteroid belt. Where the other 94% ...

Asteroid Apophis, or "God of Chaos," will pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. This rare encounter offers scientists a ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

These families were produced by three recent collisions that occurred in the main asteroid belt 5.8, 7.5 ... that threatens life on Earth). These objects are the focus of many space missions ...

Temporary flows of saltwater could explain mysterious gullies and fan-shaped deposits spotted across asteroid Vesta.

Resaerchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites pummelling the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

and lies in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter 5. But these objects account for only 10% of ordinary chondrite falls, and the origins of the remaining 90% had yet to be found ...

In contrast, millions of asteroids that have escaped the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter ... And this decade, NASA will launch the Near-Earth Object Surveyor into space, whose infrared ...