A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...

NASA has issued an alert about a massive asteroid named 2024 VY2, measuring about 170 feet, roughly the size of an aeroplane.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Asteroids, comets, and meteors are all small solar system objects, but they differ in composition and behaviour.

Two of these asteroids — 2024 TP17 and 2024 TR6 — were only discovered earlier this month, just weeks before their “world tour.” Getty Images Following close behind will be the 150-foot ...

However, Ballouz added that astronomers have long seen that asteroids that pass close to planets like Earth ... The ...

Specifically, it can show how the movement of giant planets may have led to the creation of asteroids and moons, she explained. Using images taken by the deep space probe Voyager 2 in 1986 ...

Phobos and Deimos could have formed from asteroid debris, a new study suggests. An upcoming sample return mission will help test the idea.

Hayabusa was supposed to return asteroid samples to Earth. Asteroids are space rocks that were formed during the early solar ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

The asteroids range from 100ft to 580ft across, and two of these space rocks were only discovered earlier this month, according to Nasa’s asteroid watch dashboard. The largest of them ...

Even as the asteroid hurtled towards Earth, we were arguing. That was sort of the point: some of the world’s greatest experts and most powerful agencies had been assembled to find out how to ...