Astronomers have identified 2025 SC79, a new asteroid with a remarkably fast 128-day orbit, placing it among the ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

A new quasi-satellite, 2025 PN7, has been discovered, joining a group of asteroids that orbit the Sun alongside Earth. These ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old from London, Ontario, has potentially discovered two new asteroids as part of a citizen science program in collaboration with NASA.

The Asteroid 2025 PN7 will orbit near the Earth as a quasi-moon until 2083, when it will drift away at high speed after ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

Earth has a new companion for the next 60 years or so — an asteroid-like object sharing the planet’s orbit around the sun.

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains ancient, ice-covered rocks that may have delivered much of Earth’s water and possibly early microbes that shaped life here.

Data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission has enabled the creation of a detailed catalog of asteroid rotations ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.