The findings by Dawn are helping scientists unlock some of the secrets of how the solar system, incl...

A newly-discovered asteroid passed in close proximity to the Earth, just 14,000 km above the planet'...

Some 4,700 potentially hazardous asteroids with diameters larger than 100 meters are loitering in ou...

NASA is reportedly training a team of astronauts for a mission to land on an asteroid by the end of ...

Vesta, the grand old asteroid of our Solar System, resembles more to a small planet or Earth's moon ...

Planetary scientists have claimed that flinging pebbles at an asteroid could help deflect the Earth-...

Changes in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter some three to four billion years ago hurled a ...

Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including it...

New images and data acquired by scientists from the Dawn spacecraft show some areas on the surface o...