The perspective is what astronauts would see out their window if there was an International Space Station flying around the ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the ...

The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...

While the asteroid won't again be observable from Earth until June 2028, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be able to study it in March from orbit. What are the odds of 2024 YR4 hitting Earth?

For a time, it was the only object among more than 37,000 known large space rocks with any chance of hitting Earth anytime soon. Initial projections gave the asteroid little more than a 1% chance ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

A team of scientists led by Issac Narrett at MIT has put forth a new explanation for the mysterious magnetization: asteroid impacts ... about 10 times closer to Earth than it is today, both ...

Asteroid 2025 KF is estimated to have a diameter ranging between 32 and 75 feet (10 - 23 meters), making it approximately the size of a house. Even if 2025 KF were to hit Earth, its small size ...

Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy ... near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. Moments before, Hayabusa2 had fired a projectile into Ryugu’s surface—creating this image ...