Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...

Asteroid hunters say they've identified 27,500 new, high-confidence asteroid discovery candidates, just by sifting through ...

"The signatures of space weathering we have detected directly will give us a better understanding of some of the phenomena ...

After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...

With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the ...

An asteroid dubbed "Lucy's baby" after a NASA spacecraft discovered it is orbiting another asteroid last November is,, in ...

Analyzing samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has revealed new ...

Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave ...

Using cutting-edge technology, asteroid hunters have discovered 27,500 previously undiscovered near-Earth asteroids that may be able to avert a future apocalyptic event.

Less than a decade after discovering a near-Earth asteroid, scientists say they have determined where this mysterious object came from on the Moon's surface.

Detection of the rocks is crucial to the future of 'planetary defense' — a global effort to prevent potential asteroid ...

A recent study examined the effects of space weathering on Ryugu, an asteroid explored by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft.