"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

NASA's Lucy probe will journey to an asteroid that has remained untouched for 150 million years, potentially revealing ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

A UVA professor is part of the study of Trojan asteroids, presumed remnants of the early solar system that share Jupiter’s ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...