The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is an enormous ring of space rocks. The region, known as the asteroid belt, is home to an estimated 1.9 million asteroids that are larger than 1 kilometer in diameter ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

A huge asteroid discovered by scientists has broken records by spinning faster than any other asteroid of its size ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

A powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas ...

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On03, NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft beams its last data transmission back to Earth. Pioneer 10 was NASA's first mission to the ...

NASA's Lucy mission is key to helping us understand the early history of our solar system as it studies asteroids like the Donaldjohanson. Named after the paleoanthropologist who co-discovered the ...

Measuring around 41 feet in diameter, the asteroid is speeding towards our planet at more than 38,500 miles per hour.