NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2022 YS5 is approaching. The space rock will make its closest pass on 17 July.

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

Science has advanced not just through steady progress, but often through the perseverance of individuals whose ideas were ...

A new study suggests ancient wood floated into a cave far above the Colorado River when a meteorite-induced earthquake ...

W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.

New photos, including a striking technicolor timelapse, show off the newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the earliest ever signs of planets being born around a star.

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up ...

July's third quarter moon phase occurs at 8:38 EDT (0038 GMT) on July 17. At this moment, skywatchers in the northern ...

A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...