David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space rocks. Here’s...

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the ori...

The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary defense test.

Asteroid 2025 VP1 is hurtling through space at more than 18,300 miles per hour, the space agency has reported.

The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

I don't particularly like trends in genres all that much. They're much too relied upon, and don't really tell me much about a game outright...

Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

The latest evidence comes from analysing a portion of the Kirtland Formation in northern New Mexico

Scientists caution evidence from single location may not point to broader trend

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous period, suggesting...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark Energy Camera at i...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from the chopping bloc...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more likely if the spac...

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning astronomers who firs...