2024 YR4 shows a 4% chance of hitting the Moon on December 22, 2032, with no risk to Earth. James Webb Space Telescope data ...

An Australian company that is a leader in taking images of spacecraft in low Earth orbit wants to widen its aperture to ...

Did you spot it? Shortly after sunset on Wednesday evening, a fireball was spotted streaking across the northwestern sky over Connecticut. The American Meteor Society received more than 30 reports ...

On October 1st, a small asteroid named C15KM95 passed by Earth at an altitude of just 300 kilometers, skimming over ...

Astronomers have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Japan’s Hayabusa2 extended mission, is far smaller and faster-spinning than previously thought. Astronomers have conducted a new ...

The Tianwen 2 mission, which is China's first attempt to bring pristine asteroid samples back to Earth, was launched on May ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day drift into Earth’s path, at least according to simulations combining ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s ...

The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, should it be deflected or blown up? A paper from NASA scientists and ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell ...