Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.

NASA landed a spacecraft on an asteroid! After a five-year mission, the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros. This was the first soft landing on an asteroid, and ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The asteroid, discovered just after Christmas and named 2024 YR4, could strike the planet in December 2032 as it approaches ...

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There's a slim chance a sizeable asteroid could collide with our planet in 2032, and it's fair to wonder why the powers that ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

The infinite cosmos is a perilous expanse, filled with celestial objects that could be on a collision course with Earth.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

As we move into 2025, the field of space exploration is buzzing with exciting missions, new technologies, and a renewed focus ...