A swarm of interplanetary dust, rocks, comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as astronomers had feared.

Professor Horner said he was touched by the permanence of the gesture. "I remember seeing famous people get asteroids named after them — famous astronomers — when I was a kid, and thinking ...

At least three city-killing asteroids that could strike Earth are hiding behind our closest neighbor in the solar system. A new study warns that Venus is blocking out our view of many near-Earth ...

Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt. They used their approach to detect more than 100 new asteroids, ranging from the size of a ...

Asteroids are essentially construction debris ... plot the object’s future movements and calculate the risk. The most famous collision between Earth and one of these objects took place about ...

"Binary asteroids have attracted the attention of ... and gravitational interactions," the authors wrote in the paper. One of the most famous examples of this is the binary asteroid system ...