A 53-foot asteroid is predicted to make a close approach to Earth on New Year's Eve. While the risk of impact is low, NASA ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

An asteroid the size of around nine reindeer - coincidentally, how many reindeer Santa Claus supposedly uses - is set to pass ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA has successfully returned a 250-gram sample of dirt from a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. Scientists around the world will study the rock particles to see ...

At roughly the size of a large stadium — or several million elephants, according to ChatGPT — 2020 XR is more than capable of destroying one of our Earth cities, should the asteroid ever ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

We are overjoyed with the success." Now, finally, we might be able to clap our eyes on the largest haul of asteroid dirt ever successfully collected and delivered to Earth by a human mission.

"This is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever returned to Earth," Nasa administrator Bill Nelson said. The asteroid material "included waterlogged clay minerals", said The New York Times.

It is also probably in the top five percent of the largest asteroids ever found. Luckily, the hidden planet-killer asteroid doesn’t pose a direct threat to our way of life just yet, and NASA’s ...

Earlier this month, researchers announced they found the smallest asteroids ever detected within the main belt, which is a ...