The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar impact, according to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observations. While a moon impact wouldn't significantly alter ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much.

A 700km-wide object, 2017 OF201, has been found orbiting far beyond Neptune. It could reshape our understanding of our solar ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

Politecnico di Milano Department of Aerospace Science and Technology’s Francesco Topputo and Fabio Ferrari said: "Being part of the Apophis mission is a tremendous honour. We are developing ...

sent a spacecraft to smash into an asteroid called Dimorpohos. Dimorphos orbits a larger asteroid, called Didymos. Neither threatened us, to be clear, as this was just a proof-of-concept mission.

Things like asteroids or Ceres, a dwarf planet like Pluto which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A new study in Nature Communications says carbon appears to be blown into ...

The national space agency is also tracking a slightly smaller house-sized asteroid, called "2025 KC," that's around 52 feet in diameter. It is expected to fly past at over 16,000 miles per hour ...

Should humanity return to Ceres? Join us in this Astrographics analysis as we weigh the significance and potential of revisiting the giant of the asteroid belt. China reacts to Trump's "Golden ...

They can tell us about the vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. When an asteroid struck Earth some 66 million years ago, the one blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs ...

Shares of Ceres Global Ag soared after it agreed to be acquired by Bartlett Grain at a large premium. Shares more then doubled Tuesday morning to 6.03 Canadian dollars ($4.32). The agricultural ...