NASA scientists have set out the truth about a 220-foot asteroid hurtling 'near' Earth early next week. Naturally, talk of space rocks on a near-Earth trajectory gets the imagination going. My mind ...

NASA has revealed that an asteroid the size of an aeroplane is set to make a close pass by Earth next week. Despite making headlines, NASA specialists have been quick to point out that the event is ...

The space centre has announced that a large asteroid - known as 2025 OW - is on course to pass by Earth on Monday, July 28 ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise ...

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

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever discovered ESO’s VLT captured the clearest image of the comet on July 3 The comet will reappear in December after hiding behind the Sun ...

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

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

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact ... from the massive gas giant) and headed toward the inner solar system. It ...

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

Initial sightings of Asteroid 2032 YR4 were tricky, but tracking has gotten better, helping us understand its path. New data, especially from the James Webb Space Telescope, helps us narrow down the ...