"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

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A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance research and practical applications in asteroid observation, the Sharjah Academy ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

Recently the asteroid 2024 YR4, which is expected to pass Earth in 2032, was calculated to have a 1 in 83 chance of striking ...

The asteroid, 2024 YR4, was detected by UH’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and given a 3% probability ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...