We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

MIT researchers analyzed precious samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission. They looked for clues of an ancient magnetic field.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Scientists first caught sight of the mini-moon while observing an asteroid named Polymele, near the outskirts of the solar system. NASA says that the asteroid is around 17 miles along its widest axis.

This gives scientists a valuable chance to study these rocky visitors from outer space. The papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events—and possibly ...

Researchers at the Advanced Photon Source joined an international effort to study tiny fragments of a nearby asteroid. The ...

The heavens will be busy tonight and tomorrow. NASA is expecting several interplanetary visitors to Earth's outer space neighborhood. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies is keeping a close eye on ...

New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...

How did cockroaches survive the asteroid that led to the extinction of dinosaurs? – Kinjal, age 11, Delhi, India When the rock now known as the Chicxulub impactor plummeted from outer space and ...