Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and its gravity strongly influences the movement of asteroids and comets. While it can capture or deflect some dangerous objects, it can also disturb ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows the asteroid belt is eroding faster than once thought. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Lying between Mars ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos' orbit. (CREDIT: ...

Asteroid Bennu origin discovery: ETH Zurich's Science Advances study reveals Jupiter filtered early solar dust into a water-ice-line transition zone near the asteroid belt 4.5 billion years ago, ...

The main asteroid belt in our solar system is located between Mars and Jupiter. And although it is considered to be the most stable element, this could well change. Indeed, it seems to be slowly ...

The asteroid Bennu orbits the sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 kilometers. NASA took advantage of this to collect material from the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. On June 30, 1908, an asteroid about 65 meters wide collided with Earth’s ...

Learn about 2024 YR4, the asteroid with a 4 percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, and the possible timeline of effects that could follow. Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens Earth. Instead, ...

As an astronomer, headlines that scream about “killer space rocks” and “doomsday asteroids” scare me almost as much as the threat of an actual asteroid impact. Every time an asteroid has some small ...