Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...

A new study from Sandia National Laboratories focuses on how X-rays from a nuclear explosion could impact an asteroid on a ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.

Everyone knows of the asteroid that spelled the end of all non-avian dinosaurs—the Chicxulub impactor—but a new study shows ...

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.

Saturn is known for its stunning rings and its many moons (four seen here), but they aren’t the planet’s only companions. Its first known Trojan — an asteroid that shares the planet’s orbit around the ...

An asteroid was officially named Zhongnanshan in honor of the prominent Chinese respiratory disease expert during a naming ...

In humanity’s latest bid to avoid going the way of the dinosaurs, a European spacecraft soared away from the coast of Florida ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has embarked on a two-year mission to study a small asteroid previously impacted ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...