Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

There’s also a chance that Apophis could collide with another small asteroid between now and 2029. There are 1.2 million known asteroids in the galaxy, but there are others too small to track, any of ...

ON has a diameter anywhere between 721 and 1,575 feet (220 to 480 metres) - meaning it could be nearly as big as the One ...

An astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario finds that the odds of the asteroid 99942 Apophis striking Earth are slightly higher than previously thought. In his study, published in The ...

Was Ceres born in the main asteroid belt, or did it migrate there from the outer solar system? The answer is buried in data ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...

A fascinating celestial event is on the horizon as asteroid 2024 RF, a space rock approximately 50 feet in diameter, is set to pass near Earth on September 6. This asteroid, about the length of a ...

A 500-meter-long asteroid, 2004 VD17, was briefly designated at level 2 in 2006 after initial observations gave a 1 in 1,000 chance of hitting Earth, before more observations reduced the threat to ...