BEIJING: China is preparing to launch near-Earth asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, state-run CCTV reported on Sunday, in the count...

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, a scenario tha...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cret...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Reanalysis of data from NASA's Dawn Mission has turned up some "very surprising" results, researchers said.

NASA tracks asteroids through several programs to monitor objects that could pose a threat to Earth.

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed lig...

NASA's recent flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson marks a significant milestone in space exploration, as the Lucy spacecraft transmitted st...

Asteroid Donaldjohanson has turned out to be a picturesque waypoint as NASA’s mission heads toward Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

4 min readNASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid DonaldjohansonIn its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a clos...

The mission is set for a close encounter with the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20.

By MARCIA DUNN, Associated PressCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it make...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an asteroid; this...

A study of thousands of space rocks may explain why a common type in space is so uncommon on our planet.