Bennu's parent body is part of the Polana family of asteroids. A history of collisions created Bennu, and its original parent ...

Asteroid 2025 PM2, about 190 feet in diameter, will pass Earth at a distance of 2.31 million miles on August 27, 2025. While ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

Dean sets the record straight on Asteroid 2024 YR4 and chats with Pranvera Hyseni, a PhD student at the University of California Santa Cruz, and the Founder and Director of Astronomy Outreach of ...

Out in our Solar System there is still a class of cosmic objects we’ve never closely examined, metallic asteroids. They’re ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some problems for our planet.

The short answer is that Chiron is an asteroid -slash-comet orbiting somewhere past Jupiter and Saturn. And until January 2026, it’s going to look like it’s going backwards in the sky.