Building on its successful first round-trip mission to space rock Itokowa, Japan's space agency JAXA...

Two days after the Earth survived the Mayan doomsday predictions, NASA has revealed that an asteroid...

Travelling deep in space, China's lunar probe Chang'e-2 has successfully conducted a manoeuvre in wh...

Cosmic fireworks will enthrall sky gazers on Thursday night as the annual Geminids meteor shower wil...

Asteroids may have brought life to Earth as scientists claim their collisions with planets can boost...

A NASA team will fly to space to investigate a giant asteroid and deflect it if it's on collision co...

The findings by Dawn are helping scientists unlock some of the secrets of how the solar system, incl...

Asteroids from the inner solar system may be the source of the majority of Earth's water, a new stud...

A newly-discovered asteroid passed in close proximity to the Earth, just 14,000 km above the planet'...