Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Compared to larger asteroids, decameter asteroids have less ... But even a tiny asteroid can cause real damage—the famous Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013 was a small ...

Finally, scientists from the University of Oxford have the answer - and say that, contrary to popular belief, Earth's water did not come from asteroids after all. Instead, the researchers believe ...

More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among the oldest materials in our solar system, originating from planets, asteroids, and comets. Most meteorites ...

A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as astronomers had feared.

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future. Each year, according to Nasa ...

Asteroids are essentially construction debris ... plot the object’s future movements and calculate the risk. The most famous collision between Earth and one of these objects took place about ...

Asteroids are essentially construction debris ... plot the object's future movements and calculate the risk. The most famous collision between Earth and one of these objects took place 66 million ...