Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

The impact carved deep into the Moon’s crust, exposing radioactive-rich materials known as KREEP — short for potassium, rare ...

A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 TF, skimmed past Earth closer than many satellites and was photographed by the Catalina Sky ...

By combining Gaia’s massive asteroid dataset with AI modeling, scientists discovered that asteroid rotation depends on how ...

An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, according to space agencies. The space object, named 2025 TF, ...

Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space ...

A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...

The team found evidence that after 4 million years, there were microbes living within the crater, while it was still pretty ...

Asteroid impacts are typically linked with mass extinctions and catastrophic events. However, recent studies have unearthed a ...

The Paris-based European Space Agency says a near 10-foot-wide asteroid passed Earth 265 miles above Antarctica but was not ...