Now a group of scientists, including ones from NASA, is exploring options for a different near-Earth space rock, dubbed 2024 ...

Asteroid 2023 CX1 was observed in February 2023, seven hours before entering the atmosphere, and disintegrated at a very low latitude above the surface.

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...

Asteroid 1998 KY26 is smaller, faster, and brighter than scientists thought, complicating Hayabusa2’s mission of landing on ...

Dawn didn’t just observe Vesta’s giant craters - it mapped the asteroid’s interior and detected signs of a once-active molten core. At Ceres, its spectrometers found ammonia-rich clays and carbonates, ...

The unusual behaviour of the 'very common' asteroid has sparked worries over our preparedness for future impact.

The discovery, made by a team including researchers at the University of Tokyo, is based on microscopic rock fragments ...