A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

TN17 will safely pass Earth this time, NASA's warning serves as a reminder of the lurking dangers in space. Scientists and ...

Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

a Los-Angeles-based company developing various technologies for the fledgling asteroid mining sector. TransAstra will be running a demonstration of its inflatable "capture bag" tech for the ...

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

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...