According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...
Astronomers from Canada and France have announced the discovery of the first Trojan asteroid known to share its orbit with Uranus.
This image shows the...
An object that killed the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago may have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, say researchers Prof Jason Moore and Prof...
Chicxulub, an asteroid that collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and is believed to wipe out the dinosaurs, may have triggered a global firestorm...
New observations of the asteroid Apophis made with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory as it approached our planet few days ago show the asteroid to be...