Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...

The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13, 2029, and space agencies are coordinating ...

JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the ...

YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away it ...

A large asteroid is hurtling toward Earth -- but there's no need to duck and cover.The space rock, known by the very dull name of 2014 JO25 will safely fly by Earth on April 19, according to NASA.

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

Earth is a pretty great place if you're a human, what with all the gravity and breathable air. But year by year, humanity's ...