An artist's illustration shows 2024 HR4, an asteroid with a small chance of hitting the moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4’s star has faded when it comes to the general public, but scientists are pumped ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...