The rock is hurtling through our cosmic neighborhood at a zippy 8,768 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied ...

Evidence of chemical alteration by liquid water has been found on the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed further from the ...

On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped body ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

NASA has been tracking a bus-sized asteroid that is zipping past Earth on Friday at a whopping 45,522 mph. Known as 2026 KC1, the space rock is estimated to be about 27 feet across and makes its ...

At the heart of the asteroid belt, a celestial object named Psyche deeply intrigues the scientific community. With its diameter of 226 kilometers (about 140 miles), its improbable metallic structure ...

The 1998 sci-fi classic Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster got one thing right – we really could nuke an ...