A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

Far from being static, binary asteroid systems are surprisingly dynamic. A team led by ...

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Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in space? And, either... Comets, asteroids, and planets: The likely ...

Dear EarthTalk: It seems to me the single biggest potential “environmental” problem we could face—even bigger than global warming or a nuclear war—is a comet or asteroid striking the Earth. Do we ...

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...