Installation of an experiment testing asteroid material at CERN's HiRadMat facility. (Photo: Karl-Georg Schlesinger) Millions of asteroids orbit ...

As part of the 'Our Fragile Space' exhibition, Alexander took long-exposure photographs of the sky to illustrate the number ...

How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Asteroid impacts with global consequences are vastly rarer, especially compared to the frequency with which they appear in ...

An asteroid could strike Earth one day, prompting the need for preparation and understanding. This video covers various ...

ExLabs partners with Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology (ChibaTech) and its Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC) ...

Astronomers peering through images from the Vera C. Rubin Obervatory have discovered an unusual asteroid spinning so fast that it's broken the record for how space rocks of its size are supposed to ...

Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every two minutes. Dubbed 2025 MN45, the space rock is some 2,300 feet across ...

🚨Record-breaking asteroid spotted by NSF–DOE @VRubinObs 🚨 Using early data from the LSST Camera, astronomers have ...

Scientists have discovered a “record-breaking” asteroid that is nearly the size of eight football fields. The object, known as “2025 MN45,” is also remarkable for its speed, and is the ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...