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

"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 ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The ...

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

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

Asteroids in the yellow zone can be big enough ... “All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said at the time. “After all, it’s the ...

What changed these predictions and more importantly, how do scientists determine if asteroids should strike? Projecting asteroid collision depends on whether we can see it in the darkness of ...

icy shell of comets and asteroids at the edge of the solar system. The researchers involved in the new study say these aren’t just random space rocks, either. Instead, they argue they’ve ...