AFTER having vanished from view for more than a year, the planet Eros has now been rediscovered. The astronomers of the country are on the qui vive, for this elusive wanderer of the skies is ...

The calculation resulted in the surprising discovery that the new planet could not be a member of the known group of asteroids, as its orbit lay almost entirely inside the orbit of Mars.

Near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros makes its closest approach to Earth since 2012 today, when it comes within 19.4 million miles (31.2 million kilometers) of our planet. Throughout the week, asteroid ...

The distant asteroid 433 Eros, which received a Valentine’s Day visit from a robotic NASA spacecraft, may be the fragment of a busted planet, scientists said Thursday. The agency’s $224.1 ...

But the planet doesn’t really care ... to the energy that would be obtained if the mass of the entire asteroid Eros (which has an average diameter of almost 17 kilometers) could be converted ...