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

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

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

The Solar System's first-of-its-kind finding may be a 90% water planet. Is the dwarf planet, Ceres, holding the possibility ...

NASA revealed a car-sized asteroid, known as "2025 DQ", is hurtling past Earth today at approximately 15,000 miles per hour.

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.