NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon travel by asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed roughly 150 million years ago.

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

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

Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Over a 12-year mission, Lucy is scheduled to visit a total of 11 asteroids across two swarms that are leading and trailing Jupiter. Still, every asteroid counts for this mission, and a new paper ...