A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

A recent study found that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is gradually shedding mass over time. This region was ...

The asteroid belt orbiting between Mars and Jupiter would hurl fragments if it got destabilized, turning it into dust upon mutual collisions.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martian moon Deimos seen crossing the face of Mars in this sequence of Thermal Infrared Imager ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama ...

This illustration depicts a giant asteroid striking Mars 4.5 billion years ago. A cataclysmic impact like this one could have formed lumps of debris that now lie scattered throughout the Martian ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...