A 67-foot airplane-sized asteroid named 2026 KF will fly close to Earth on May 22, 2026. Scientists are closely tracking the ...

Asteroids are rocky leftovers from the early formation of our planetary neighborhood. And of the over one million that we ...

A Mashable series about the curious space rocks hurtling through our solar system, and how humanity is on the lookout for new ones. Astronomers are vigilantly scanning the skies for asteroids that ...

“There was and is a lot more water in near-Earth space than we thought.” ...

A massive airplane-sized asteroid named (2026 JP1) is set to fly past Earth on May 20, 2026. Scientists say it is safe, but ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

The use of nuclear weapons to drive off asteroids has often been used in science fiction, but real-world scientists have often touted the idea of a nuclear asteroid deterrent as a horrible idea. Now, ...

An ultraprecise satellite tasked with mapping more than a billion stars across the galaxy has spotted something fascinating closer to home: 352 asteroids in the solar system that likely have their own ...

Swirling among the planets in our solar system are pieces of rocky matter called asteroids. Too small to be considered planets, asteroids are a ‘hangover’ from the early formation of the solar system, ...