What are the odds that a meteorite would fall on you? According to an astronomer’s estimations, they are 1 in 700,000. Until recently, there was no evidence that such an incident had ever occurred.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has cracked the long-standing puzzle of why some asteroids spin smoothly while ...

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...

Asteroids may be wondrous windows into the history of the cosmos, but the unfortunate reality is that they are also pretty drab. These rocky amalgamations of space debris generally look pretty much ...

Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...

Bursts of light captured crashing into the moon last week were caused by dual asteroid strikes against the lunar surface that ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." When it comes to saving Earth from a ...

Ceres is the largest 'asteroid' in our solar system, big enough that it's actually classified as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.

No, Earth will not have "two moons until 2083," but asteroid 2025 PN7 has joined Earth's orbital path, with the tiny fleet of space rocks set to trail Earth's orbit until 2083 before the sun pulls it ...

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

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the 'quasi-moon.' ...