A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of ...

The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

Learn more about the possible prevention strategies for the 2024 YR4 asteroid, which was previously thought to pose a threat ...

Surface features on asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, as identified by the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission, have ...

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The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

A plan by a team of scientists suggests using nuclear explosive devices to prevent an asteroid, 2024 YR4, from striking the ...

The asteroid's neck, or "collum," — which joins the two lobes — has been named Windover. The name comes from the Windover ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.