Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

Although asteroids make for splashy headlines, the likelihood of them creating a humanity-ending event is very unlikely.

University of Oxford researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids ...

About exactly four years from now, the asteroid Apophis will swing past Earth on April 13, 2029. This space rock, measuring ...

NASA and other global space scientists keep a close eye on asteroids known as near-Earth objects (NEOs). These are comets or ...

Of all the asteroids that become meteoroids by striking Earth's surface, only 4% contain abundant carbon ... "Understanding ...

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

The research team demonstrated that the material which built our planet was far richer ... of habitable conditions on Earth did not rely on asteroids hitting the Earth. University of Oxford ...