Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s orbit around the ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...

The National Academy of Sciences has prioritized planetary defense against potentially world-ending asteroids. A new study ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

Spread the loveFor decades, Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, was considered a dry and dusty world. But recent ...

Asteroid Bennu, a near-Earth object, has played a key role in improving our knowledge of asteroids and Earth's history. Now, ...

You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science museum or in the ...

There are currently 4 forces of nature in the Standard Model of physics including gravity, electromagnetism and strong and weak nuclear interactions. However, experts have long theorized there is a ...

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.

It has been confirmed that the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, which is speculated to potentially collide with Earth in about a century and a half, contains water and carbon. According to the New York ...