ASTEROID

Dutch scientists say a meteorite that crashed near Amsterdam this year is about as old as the Earth, so it can tell us how our solar system and our planet formed.

Planet 10? Pluto had its planetary rank ripped away from it, but there could be two more planets out there waiting to take its place.

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons said a dangerous asteroid could hit Earth at any moment and destroy a city.

They make up more than a third of all meteorites that strike Earth and were thought to be parts of 6 Hebe, a main-belt asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.

That's in addition to another 96 newly discovered space rocks and an unexplained increase in comet activity.

June 9 is celebrated as the National Donald Duck Day across the U.S. to commemorate the birthday of the cartoon character.

These asteroids are fragile, but the possibility exists that they may penetrate the atmosphere and seriously collide with earth. The danger of a crash with an asteroid grows every few years when the Earth encounters this new branch.

Events on Earth like tornadoes and earthquakes are nothing compared to the dangers of our solar system, our galaxy and our universe.

A new telescope is trained on the moon to capture meteors crashing as part of an effort to understand asteroids and other space rocks that could strike Earth.

Called Psyche, the mission to study a unique asteroid of the same name in the main asteroid belt was originally scheduled for a 2023 launch.

Tiny aliens on a TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet would have an easy time traveling to one of the neighboring planets in its solar system because they are so close together.

During the early years of the solar system, Mars got a little break from constant bombardment by space objects before the asteroids started up again.

Scientists matched up stone carvings of a comet strike with ancient star formations to date and link the artwork to a devastating climate change that influenced human civilization.

If you’re looking at the night sky for the large asteroid that is passing close to Earth, look for something shaped like a peanut. Find out when you can view JO25 as it heads toward Earth.

According to NASA, the asteroid will fly by Earth Wednesday but we aren't in any danger because of it.

The asteroid impact at the time the dinosaurs went extinct hit Earth hard enough to cause earthquakes in Colorado.

Three objects slammed into Mars at the same time to create this unusual crater.

A large asteroid is going to get pretty close to Earth this month for the first time in hundreds of years.

A long-destroyed planet is haunting Mars, with its remains following Earth’s neighbor wherever it goes.

The asteroid, 2015 BZ509, is the only known object in the solar system to have a retrograde orbit and to share a planet’s orbital space.

Although the search did not reveal any new asteroids in the fourth Lagrangian area, it demonstrated that a key instrument on board the asteroid Bennu bound spacecraft was functioning optimally.