A newly discovered meteor stream may be the smoking gun of an asteroid slowly disintegrating under the Sun’s intense heat.

“There was and is a lot more water in near-Earth space than we thought.” ...

Hit-and-run collisions between embryonic planets during a critical period in the early history of the Solar System may account for some previously unexplained properties of planets, asteroids, and ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

This animation shows how an asteroid would appear during different phases depending on its location relative to the Sun, similar to how the Moon has phases. Approximately 4.6 billion years ago our ...

For decades, astronomers have tracked a small group of space rocks that share Earth’s orbit around the sun. Among them, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. NASA has been tracking a house-sized asteroid in the vicinity of Earth ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...

What studying the surface of the Moon revealed about Earth’s apocalyptic youth. Four and a half billion years ago, Earth was battered by relentless asteroid impacts powerful enough to vaporize oceans ...