A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

An instrument created by a team at the University of New Hampshire was recently installed onto a spacecraft that is preparing ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...