In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

A large asteroid will pass close to Earth in July 2025. NASA and ISRO are closely monitoring its trajectory. The asteroid, ...

When a vending-machine-sized spacecraft hit Dimorphos in 2022, planetary defense experts anticipated an easy test of kinetic ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

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

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone find closer to home than anyone ever expected, under ...

Measuring about 1,200 feet wide, 2005 VO5 belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that frequently cross ...

King Charles and his daughter-in-law Kate's public battle with cancer has had a huge impact on fellow sufferers, encouraging ...