Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

Far from being static, binary asteroid systems are surprisingly dynamic. A team led by ...

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...

NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed bynear-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the potential to cause devastating damage to cities. While some large asteroids ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a skyscraper ... or at least, it's something as big as those things. Several large asteroids are set to pass by Earth this week, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...