The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

Asteroid Vesta, long considered a stalled protoplanet, may actually be a massive fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New findings based on gravity-field mapping and ...

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, ...

The Hayabusa2 mission captured the asteroid with eerie clarity against a pitch-black backdrop. The unsettling darkness of ...

The part, which is from the Kosmos 482 mission, was supposed to land on Venus but could not as something went wrong with the ...

Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft from 1972, is returning to Earth. The mission to Venus failed, trapping the spacecraft in ...

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

Second-Largest Asteroid in the Solar System May Be an Ancient Piece From a Lost Planet, Claim Scientists Space exploration ...

New research suggests there may be a hidden population of minimoons lurking near Earth, with fragments of the Moon traveling ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.