Asteroid

The carvings were made on a strange formation within the crater known as the "Rain Snake" dyke.

Food, payment and logistics systems are connected. If one starts crashing, the chaos may cause other systems to crash, and before we know it we’ll have massive shortages and conflicts.

The object will come within about 3 million miles of our planet.

Scientists have long been puzzled by the asymmetrical nature of the moon's two hemispheres.

The source of water on Earth and other planets like Mars is hotly debated in the planetary science community.

Apohis is set to whiz past Earth at a distance of 19,000 miles in 2029.

NASA asteroid hunter Amy Mainzer talks about how the space agency hopes to find potentially hazardous space rocks.

"I knew we were looking at something very rare,” said one of the authors of a new study.

The asteroid is located around 214 million miles from the Sun.

The dinosaurs didn’t have a chance.

The space rock is traveling at around 30,400 miles per hour.

The celestial event is caused by a stream of cosmic debris falling toward Earth at around 80,000 miles per hour.

Geminid meteor shower will peak on December 13 and 14.

The spacecraft will hopefully return to Earth in 2023 with space rock samples from the surface of the asteroid.

Researchers think the aerial explosion could have destroyed the city in an instant.

The space rock will barrel past Earth at 4 miles a second.

The research could help scientists understand natural disasters like landslides.

Scientists recently got a close look at the asteroid responsible for the Geminid meteor shower.

The comet was discovered hurtling through the solar system in 2017, but its origins have remained a mystery.

These ancient rocks are relics of the early solar system.

Astronomers have got an awful lot better at spotting nearby asteroids—but there's still a long way to go.

The asteroids were larger than previously thought.

The tiny space rocks passed a third of the distance to the moon.

Scientists are scrabbling to find the valuable rocks before they are degraded by sea water.

Vesta is the second most massive body in the asteroid belt.

Scientists hope it will unravel the secrets of the building blocks of life on Earth.

The plan details five goals the agency and government hope to accomplish over the next 10 years.

Luckily for us earthlings, the asteroid was only about 6 feet wide.

The 2015 BZ509 asteroid orbits the sun in the opposite direction to everything else in the solar system.

The asteroid was mysteriously "lost" to astronomers for a number of years.