ASTEROID

In the year 2007, a study using visible-light data from ground-based telescopes first suggested that the remnant of a huge asteroid, known as Baptistina, was the reason for the extinction of dinosaurs from Earth's surface.

Scientists rule out the idea that remnants of the Baptistina asteroid killed the dinosaurs.

In a preparation for future space exploration, a group of NASA's diving crew will live in Aquarius underwater research laboratory located near Key Largo, Florida during October.

A fireball that streaked over the Southwestern sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.

A brilliant bright light seen bolting across the Southwestern U.S. sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.

NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.

Man has already been jettisoned into outer space and taken a jaunt across the moon, but a new report finds that being able to launch human missions to asteroids might aid in the thwarting of potentially devastating asteroid strikes, Space.com reported.

Chinese astronomers are proposing sending spacecraft up to ward off asteroids that may be headed on a collision course with Earth.

Suspected but unverified for years; S-type asteroids are confirmed to be the source for most small meteorites that fall on earth, scientists have proved.

The first asteroid dust samples brought by a Japanese spacecraft back to Earth indicate that some of the most common meteorites to hit Earth might have originated from a single rocky ancestor in space, Japanese researchers say.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Don Quijote Mission plans to launch two spacecraft that will fire into a test asteroid to study the possibility of diverting an impact to earth.

Scientists at the European Space Agency is planning a test mission to blow up an asteroid to see if it's possible to change its course from heading towards the Earth. The mission, called Don Quixote, launches in 2015.

It's time to get ready for another interplanetary object encounter as NASA has confirmed that a very dark, nearly globular asteroid will pass between Earth and the moon later this year.

The European Space Agency is looking to test to see if it's possible divert an asteroid headed for Earth. The mission, called Don Quixote, is already underway at the ESA, and will help the agency learn more about how the Earth can defend itself against any potential asteroid collision threat. The project is slated for 2015.

NASA created a deep space mission department to oversee deep space manned mission explorations such as traveling to space rocks and Mars.

Once there, Juno orbit 33 times around the Jupiter's poles and collect data that scientists have keen interest in, as the gas giant has an amazing composition, which is said to resemble a star, like the sun.

NASA Spacecraft Juno launched from Florida on Friday and began its 5-year journey (1,740 million miles) to Jupiter. Upon arrival, it will study the gas giant for 1 year.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft snapped photos of the image and shows the stark difference between Vesta's day and night.

The first close-up pictures of the asteroid Vesta, a protoplanet that dates back to the early days of the solar system, revealed a surprisingly diverse terrain and several unexplained geologic features, NASA scientists said on Monday.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets a clear image of the Vesta asteroid.

NASA's Dawn mission spacecraft will descend to a 1,700-mile-high orbit on Aug. 11 where scientist will begin an examination of the Vesta asteroid, the second-largest in the main asteroid belt.