"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

If we miss this chance, we may have to wait 11,000 years for another.

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

RSCC - Ted Stryk, Roane State Associate Professor of Philosophy and English, had an asteroid named in his honor upon ...

Lander, the New York City comptroller, said he has not been charged following his arrest for allegedly assaulting law ...

Back in 2018, scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks using ice-penetrating radar discovered a 31-kilometre impact crater in northwestern Greenland, formed by an asteroid strike. It would ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances of hitting the moon in December 2032 have increased to 4.3%.