In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the neighborhood.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on nearly 40,000 large objects out there with the hope of avoiding the fate of ...

Psyche, spanning 173 miles (280 km) at its widest, stands out in the asteroid belt. Long thought to be the exposed metallic ...

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

Space enthusiasts are tracking Asteroid 2025 MM. It is airplane-sized. It will safely pass by Earth this week. The asteroid will travel at a distance ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.