It has been just over a year since Nasa sent a spacecraft after a $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid. That’s 10 quintillion ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VK3, will pass Earth at a distance of about 273,000 miles, just further than the moon's 238,900-mile ...

At the end of September, Earth gained a temporary "mini moon," a tiny asteroid from the Arjuna asteroid belt orbiting the Sun ...

The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

Vesta, the second biggest member of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... should have long escaped into space. Yet, close-up images of the asteroid, captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS Four other asteroids are due ... The majority of the asteroids in our solar system are found in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, and occasionally, Jupiter's ...

A diagram showing the asteroid belt. Jupiter's orbit is also shown, with green dots representing where the Jupiter Trojans are. Jupiter's first discovered Trojan, 588 Achilles, was identified in ...

13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago ... long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to Earth using light.