The unusual behaviour of the 'very common' asteroid has sparked worries over our preparedness for future impact.

Here, the 'ice volcano' does not erupt molten rock, but rather 'ice magma' formed from a mixture of water ice, liquid brine, ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

After completing the asteroid sampling mission, the Tianwen-2 return capsule is expected to land on Earth and complete its recovery by the end of 2027. Subsequently, the main spacecraft will continue ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

The small asteroid, located in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, was visited by Lucy on April 20, 2025, during a ...

Researchers were able to determine that the asteroid came from the inner Asteroid Belt, the region between Mars and Jupiter, ...

NASA has issued an alert about an impending asteroid, one as large as a skyscraper, that is on a trajectory towards our ...

Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...