Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

From the balcony of his family’s downtown London, Ontario apartment, five-year-old Siddharth Patel would spend nights gazing ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment. The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid crash has caught ...

When it comes to saving Earth from a potential doomsday rock, knowing where to hit it and how it spins could make all the difference. Two new studies presented last month at the Europlanet Science ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned in new research. The giant space rocks are believed ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

Some asteroids hold more iron, nickel and cobalt than Earth's reserves, presenting options for off-planet construction, fuel ...

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

When Joel Sercel thinks about the promise of extracting valuable resources from asteroids for use in space, he recalls other world-changing technologies that exploded when the time and circumstances ...

Have telescope, will travel, sometimes really far. The University of Virginia Occultation Group, astronomy undergraduates who observe and track asteroids and small planets, make most of their ...

The August 2015 issue of Astronomy contains the story, “Observe asteroids through binoculars.” In the piece, I concentrate on describing techniques I use, and that left little space for describing the ...