asteroid

After a six-year mission and a flight of hundreds of millions of kilometres, a Japanese space capsule has landed in the South Australian outback, carrying the first sub-surface asteroid samples. ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. probe that collected a sample from an asteroid earlier this week retrieved so much material that ...

Humanity will for the first time have the chance to find out if we can deflect an asteroid, ...

NASA on Saturday said that a small asteroid is headed toward Earth one day before Election Day in ...

Two Indian schoolgirls have discovered an asteroid that is slowly shifting its orbit and moving toward Earth. Radhika ...

The city-size asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs to extinction came from ...

One of the world's largest lunar meteorites goes on private sale at Christie's on April 30, valued at ...

Researchers have revealed new evidence suggesting what happened on the day the dinosaurs went extinct. A new study ...

Scientists were surprised after an asteroid almost hit earth on Thursday, July 25. "It’s impressively close. I don’t ...

Scientists have discovered an unknown material on the moon's largest crater, and they are not yet sure what ...

An asteroid which measures approximately a mile wide and is orbited by its own moon is expected to ...

The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that a major asteroid could crash into ...

When it comes to extraterrestrial threats, you can never be too careful, and NASA and FEMA aren't taking ...

TOKYO—A Japanese spacecraft touched down on a distant asteroid on Feb. 22, on a mission to collect material ...

An asteroid that’s about the size of a football field flew past Earth on Feb. 19. The object, ...

Giant rocks from space are falling from the sky more than they used to, but don’t worry. For ...

An asteroid larger than 12 football fields that is set to pass near Earth early next month is ...

NASA will be sending a spacecraft to one of the solar system’s more unique asteroids.

A small asteroid named 2016 QA2 came within 50,000 miles of our planet on Sunday.

At least two amateur astronomers were aiming their telescopes at Jupiter on March 17 and caught what appears to ...

The Occatur Crater on the dwarf planet Ceres is home to several mysterious bright spots.

Only a few weeks ago, on October 10, the survey telescope Pan-STARRS 1 discovered an asteroid – 2015 ...

$20 Trillion: That's how much mineral wealth is buried in 3554 Amun, a tiny asteroid that crosses Earth's ...

NASA scientists still don’t have a clear picture of the bright spots showing up on the surface of ...

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to land on comet 67P was one of the most audacious in ...