In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...

A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

For the first time in its history, humanity is assembling a coordinated system to find, track, and deflect asteroids that ...

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Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.

When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been remains a mystery. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...