Asteroid

Scientists 'found microorganisms within the asteroid sample shortly after it was exposed to Earth’s environment.'

Dinkinesh and Selam are smallest asteroids in main belt between Mars and Jupiter ever seen up close by a spacecraft

DART mission aims to test its ability to alter Dimorphos's trajectory as it orbits another asteroid, Didymos

DART mission proves to be a success, altering the asteroid's orbit by 32 minutes around Didymos

DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday

DART Mission will deliberately slam into an asteroid to understand its impacts later this month

Lucy science team discovers satellite orbiting around asteroid Polymele using Hubble Space Telescope

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles of our planet

In a precision operation the spacecraft will touch down for a few seconds to collect samples after a four-year journey

As scientists hope the mission will help deepen our understanding of how planets formed and life began

This week two asteroids, one size of a bus and other a car, passed by Earth safely

Survey detects an SUV-size space rock flying past Earth over the weekend

NASA plans to launch Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission in 2021 to protect earth from asteroids

The gigantic asteroid 1998 OR2 will pass by within 6.3 million kilometers of our planet on April 29

This is just the second asteroid known to orbit Earth

Astronomers estimate a one per cent risk the space rock will collide with our planet on April 27, 2027

As it was covered in stones and boulders

Bennu asteroid, about the size of small mountain, is smallest object ever to be orbited by a human-made spacecraft

Asteroid did come well inside the orbit of the Moon and that of some human-made satellites

It is one of the biggest asteroids in the Earth's vicinity

Many sizeable asteroids have crashed into Earth or exploded in our atmosphere, leaving behind massive craters

J025, discovered in May 2014, will be the largest asteroid to come this near to the planet since 2004

The 12-kilometer wide asteroid slammed the earth at a speed of 30 kilometers per second some 66 million years ago

The unmanned spacecraft, known as OSIRIS-REx, is poised to blast off at 7:05 pm (23:05 GMT)

Scientists drill deep into ocean floor, extracting remains of the asteroid widely blamed for the demise of dinosaurs

Astronomers initially thought the object was an asteroid when they spotted it in early October

NASA pointed out that Doomsday theorists have made similar predictions in the past