It's an Earth sandwich! What if we placed our Earth between our Solar System's two asteroid belts: the Main Asteroid Belt and ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

Zipping toward Earth at around 20,000 miles per hour, the asteroid is due to make its closest approach on Tuesday.

It’s been called a moonlet. Sister moon. You could even call it a moon “buddy,” a companion or quasi-satellite, if you will, to our steady lunar neighbor. Astronomers say a tiny asteroid, called 2025 ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. On June 30, 1908, an asteroid about 65 meters wide collided with Earth’s ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang visited the Vera C. Rubin ...