Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the hypothesis that they were originally part of the Polana collisional family in the ...

Simulations of asteroids near Venus reveal gaps in our ability to detect them. Astronomers are investigating a little-known and largely unseen group of asteroids that quietly orbit the sun alongside ...

New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. How these asteroids ...

Because their orbits are unstable, a possibility exists that the asteroids could break off from their current trajectory and one day head on a collision course for Earth. The Venusian space rocks are ...