Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

A Californian start-up, TransAstra, is planning to develop an inflatable bag capable of catching asteroids and space junk.

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

Recent research suggests that small, carbon-rich asteroids could be invaluable economic and scientific resources, offering ...

Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, ...

A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 ...

NASA raised eyebrows earlier this month when it announced that astronomers were tracking a massive asteroid that poses a small, but troubling, chance of striking Earth in the coming years. The space ...

A new study from the University of São Paulo in Brazil said some asteroids orbiting Venus “can pose a collisional hazard to Earth” benmoss/Getty Experts say Venus is hiding some asteroids that could ...