Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

Spanning around 410 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at around 30,200 miles per hour.

A study challenges the lunar origin of the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and points to a different and surprising origin.

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as "co-orbitals," these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with Earth. Basically, they take the exact same amount of time to orbit the sun ...

Measurements made with the help of the Deep Space Network (DSN) revealed that the close approach to Mars gave the spacecraft ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.