"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Asteroids in the yellow zone can be big enough ... “All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the time. “After all, it’s the ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names?

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

icy shell of comets and asteroids at the edge of the solar system. The researchers involved in the new study say these aren’t just random space rocks, either. Instead, they argue they’ve ...