ASTEROID

NASA reveals dual robotic missions, named Lucy and Psyche, which will study asteroids in our solar system.

One of the objects is a comet that may become visible through a pair of binoculars next year, while the other seems to straddle the line between a comet and an asteroid.

Two separate lines of evidence are based on data collected by Dawn during its study of the dwarf planet, which is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Scientists want the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft to look for Trojan asteroids.

The image, captured when the spacecraft was at an altitude of roughly 920 miles, shows the 57-mile-wide and 2.5-mile-deep Occator Crater.

The exercises simulated a 300 to 800-foot-wide asteroid impacting Southern California or just off the coast in the Pacific Ocean four years from now.

On Thursday, Luxembourg's government struck a $28 million investment and cooperation deal with the American asteroid mining company Planetary Resources.

A giant comet or asteroid that crashed 56 million years ago could have triggered the Earth's warming at the time, similar to today’s climate change, researchers said.

Ahuna Mons, an isolated mountain on Ceres that rises to a height to 13,000 feet, may be a cryovolcano — a volcano that erupts molten and salty water-ice instead of lava.

Scientists are baffled by the absence of large craters on Ceres, whose surface should be pockmarked as a result of numerous asteroid impacts.

OSIRIS-Rex, NASA’s first spacecraft designed to travel to a near-Earth asteroid, will be launched in September 2016, the space agency has announced.

The asteroid, big enough to be classified as a protoplanet, crashed on the lunar surface four billion years ago at an angle of 30 degrees, creating a 750-mile wide crater, a new study said.

Other than attracting interested companies, the European nation also announced it will draft “comprehensive” laws to facilitate asteroid mining.

Asteroid mining could be a trillion-dollar industry, and the tiny European country wants in on the ground floor.

Since December 2013, the spacecraft has discovered a total of 250 asteroids and comets as part of its mission to identify potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.

In new images captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the dwarf planet's mysterious Occator Crater is revealed in all its glory.

Despite proclamations of potential doom, the celestial object was never a threat to hit the planet.

A study has revealed that near-Earth asteroids end their lives vanishing in a drawn out, long and hot fizzle much farther from the sun than previously thought.

The tiny European country is planning on teaming up with Google co-founder Larry Page to mine minerals in space.

The mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet's surface that have long baffled scientists may be a mixture of salt and water-ice, a new study suggests.

Researchers found while the process parallels the one that led to the formation of Saturn's rings, the white dwarf and its debris are several times larger.