The huge 85m-wide rock, dubbed 2025 MA90, will pass within 6 million km of Earth today, July 15, and will be closely ...

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

PALMER TWP., Pa. – A new venue for children to let loose is now open in Northampton County. A second location of Ohana WonderTown Playground, a multi-level children's recreational facility, opened ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

A recent study using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled new insights into the mysterious asteroid ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space Explorers. It was backed by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to track. Venus currently hosts 20 known co-orbitals, including "Trojan" ...