Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

However, there is a sigh of relief as this Asteroid will pass less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) from our planet’s ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was detected, evading NASA's early warning system, in the third close call of its kind ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

Underneath the icy, rocky surface of asteroids – such as the 16 Psyche which is about 124 miles wide – there’s an estimated ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Tengrinews.kz - For years, scientists have observed intriguing "patterns" on Venus known as tesserae, unique features found ...

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will come close to Earth, potentially triggering tremors and landslides on its surface.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...