China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left ...

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

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...

Could this Soviet-era spacecraft be pretending to be a "dark comet?" The post Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is ...

Tianwen-2 asteroid orbit insertion at quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa is set for June 7, days away, after amateur radio teams in ...

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

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

Using an instrument called HiPERCAM, is attached to the Gran Telescopio Canarias in La Palma, Spain, a team of researchers ...

"This is the first comprehensive evidence suggesting that stromatolites could form in hydrothermal lakes created by asteroid impacts." ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.