Hiding in the blinding glare of our own Sun, astronomers have spotted a new cosmic speedster. The asteroid, called 2025 SC79, ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

There is a nonzero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening down a celestial ...

A new study from the University of São Paulo in Brazil said some asteroids orbiting Venus “can pose a collisional hazard to Earth” benmoss/Getty Experts say Venus is hiding some asteroids that could ...

An overview of the asteroids : the Asteroids III perspective / W.F. Bottke Jr. ... [et al.] -- Giuseppe Piazzi and the discovery of Ceres / G. Foderà Serio, A. Manara and P. Sicoli -- Asteroid orbit ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...

In a science lab on the fourth floor of UTSA's Multidisciplinary Studies Building, UTSA students engage in meticulous choreography around a glowing furnace, melting rocks to produce lava. The task ...

NASA is tracking a trio of vehicle-sized asteroids set to whizz by close to the Earth today—with one getting three times nearer than the orbit of the moon. That space rock—named "2025 CF"—is estimated ...

Amy Mainzer likes to quote a mentor who taught her the three basic steps to prevent asteroids from crashing into Earth: “Find them early, find them early, and find them early.” “We can't do anything ...