According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The tech billionaires could collaborate on a "humanity-saving" moon base in case an asteroid hits Earth, Douglas MacKinnon ...

A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth and the destruction it would cause.

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The asteroid warning network is affiliated with the United Nations. Officials activate the IAWN when an asteroid bigger than ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...