These asteroids are thought to consist of leftover planetesimals, the building blocks of planets that never fully coalesced into a larger body. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

The mission, called Ramses (Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety), will give a crucial window into how asteroids are affected by gravitational forces – in this case, the gravity of Earth.

Birds rely on Earth’s magnetic field to navigate vast distances, but what would happen if they were placed in space, where no magnetic cues exist? Could they still find their way using other ...

You can watch the livestream here on Space.com courtesy of the Virtual Telescope Project or directly on their WebTV page or YouTube channel. Asteroids are small, rocky remnants from the early ...

Later in the month, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore—who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS ... NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flies by asteroids.

After NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A NewsNation exclusive ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct ... and fragments of that parent body are ejected into space, but only fast enough to fall into orbits slightly away ...

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just completed the first of two planned observations of the infamous "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4, which will make a perilously close approach ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2025 DL22" will make the closest ...

Anne Verbiscer, a research professor in the University of Virginia’s astronomy department, will soon be working with NASA to take a closer look at Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Verbiscer is one of eight ...