The maps — the most detailed ones yet of of Vesta's surface features — serve as a geologic record of the asteroid that astronomers can compare to other planets and celestial bodies ...

NASA currently uses a system called the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) to map the location and orbit of about 28,000 different asteroids.

Last month, there were warnings of a mile-wide asteroid set to make a dramatic “near-Earth pass.” And in August, another colossal space rock zoomed past the planet at a distance of just 50,000 ...

Researchers discovered the asteroid responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago came from beyond Jupiter's orbit. Using ruthenium isotopes, they determined it was a C-type ...

First, one would see a blinding flash of light as the asteroid smashed into Earth. Midtown Manhattan would be instantly vaporized by the impact, leaving a crater almost a mile wide. Seconds later ...