It’s no secret that Earth was bombarded with plenty of meteors for billions of years during the solar system’s early…
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on its way. The spacecraft was launched into space on Saturday, October 16th on an Atlas…
Imagine a scenario where we detect an asteroid heading straight for Earth. Imagine that it will arrive in a couple…
An early morning launch is planned for the Lucy spacecraft, the first space mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Tomorrow,…
A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to…
So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we'll…
Usually, when the topic of asteroid mining comes up, thoughts turn to the riches of the asteroid belt between Mars…
Scientists are fortunate enough to have detailed, close-up views of the near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. Both asteroids have a…
New research suggests that the humble asteroid Vesta may have cracked open like an egg. (more…)
Astronomers have spotted the fastest-ever asteroid orbiting Sun -- and at times, it gets closer to the Sun than the…