Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

A quiet NASA mission rewrote what we know about the asteroid belt. Dawn visited Vesta and Ceres two time-capsule worlds ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid belt is slowly disappearing, offering insights into its long-term fate and what this means for our solar system.

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

The way an asteroid spins -- either smoothly on its axis or in a chaotic tumble -- depends on how many times it has been hit by other objects in space. At the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid that’s approaching Earth at a zippy 36,216 miles per hour. The asteroid—known as “2025 TC”—is projected to make its closest approach at just 53,400 miles from ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

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Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically created when larger asteroids, planetesimals, or comets collide and break up ...

The article highlights current observational opportunities for asteroid 4 Vesta and the globular cluster M80, located in the constellation Scorpius. Optimal viewing is recommended southwest, ...

Natural glass found only in Australia could be evidence of an unknown, ancient asteroid impact, researchers say. A new analysis of impact-created "tektites" points to a powerful collision millions of ...