Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon from 590,000 kilometers awa ...

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

Asteroid 2005 VO5 will pass Earth at about 6million kilometres on July 11. That distance is about 16 times as far away from Earth as the Moon is.

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the ...

Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of planets ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Professor Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist from Harvard University, told MailOnline why he thinks a new ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...