A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about asteroid evolution.

NASA's head of planetary defence has revealed what keeps her up at night – tens of thousands of 'city killer' asteroids that remain undetected. Dr Kelly Fast, who leads efforts to find and track ...

Far from being static, binary asteroid systems are surprisingly dynamic. A team led by ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

Several companies are already developing solutions to mine asteroids in space, as they contain many useful elements, such as water and gold.

Croatia's Infobip and the European Space Agency have joined forces to improve an asteroid impact warning system via real-time ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger Didymos around the sun.

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...