We’ve all seen the cheap movie version. A giant asteroid is screaming toward Earth, humanity panics, some heroics happen, and ...

China’s Tianwen 2 and Japan’s Hayabusa 2 vessels have beamed back photographs and information from the small worlds ...

The latest discovery of nucleotides on an asteroid is making scientists rethink the story of how life got going ...

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 ...

For the past two decades, NASA has focused on identifying 90% of near-Earth objects that could pose a threat to our planet. The space agency has made steady progress in detecting dangerous asteroids ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

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The use of nuclear weapons to drive off asteroids has often been used in science fiction, but real-world scientists have often touted the idea of a nuclear asteroid deterrent as a horrible idea. Now, ...

Swirling among the planets in our solar system are pieces of rocky matter called asteroids. Too small to be considered planets, asteroids are a ‘hangover’ from the early formation of the solar system, ...

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