In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled ...

In recent weeks, scientists have said the threat of a recently discovered asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 has risen slightly, ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Scientists are hoping to observe it with a robotic space probe as it passes ... the Earth’s orbit and then back out to the asteroid belt. It will be visible only for a few months before it ...

Around one to two billion years ago, this mega-asteroid broke apart in the Asteroid Belt, producing a chunk of rock that us ape-like inhabitants on the Solar System’s third planet would one day ...

Associate Professor Nick Timms, an author of the Nature article, said the discovery of these salts was a breakthrough in space research ... planet Ceres in the asteroid belt.

Meanwhile, NASA has core samples awaiting pickup at Mars, but their delivery is on hold while the space agency studies ... planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter's moon, Europa, and ...