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

“Our research has implications not just for asteroid detection and planetary defense, but also for our broader understanding ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

By recreating an asteroid impact emergency and getting participants to offer suggestions as to how they’d deal with it, the hope is that weaknesses in Earth’s planetary defense system are ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The European Space Agency's Hera mission is on its way toward Mars, where it will get a gravity assist before going on to its asteroid target.

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

ESA's Hera mission has completed the first critical maneuver on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since ...

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...