A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

On a large asteroid named Vesta, mysteriously curved gullies and fan-shaped deposits may have formed from short-lived flows ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...

The asteroid is one of the most intriguing and ... from the sun where temperatures are low enough for water to turn to ice. The findings have implications for what NASA will find at 16 Psyche ...

Scientists have identified the world's oldest asteroid crater in Australia, adding it may explain how the planet was lifted from an ice age. The asteroid hit Yarrabubba in Western Australia about ...

This means they are close enough to the sun for any ice the asteroid may have been carrying to sublimate (or change from solid ice directly into gas), the university explains. As Taylor notes ...

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...

"The Trojan asteroid was in the process of gravitationally ... That is, if Saturn wants to hang with its fellow gas giants and ice giants. In fact, even smaller terrestrial planets like Earth ...

The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. "Farewell, Earth!" the European Space Agency posted online. "Last week, after we successfully launched our Hera mission ...