NASA is monitoring asteroid 447755 (2007 JX2), a massive, stadium-sized space rock travelling at a shocking speed of 44,001 ...

At least eight comets will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere in 2025. Here's where and when to look and which ones you ...

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured asteroid 2023 BU when it less than 40,000 km (25,854 mi.) away from ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned asteroid samples, enabling a vast observation campaign that provided new insights into ...

Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...

While it is expected that the second moon will shoot out on the day of Thanksgiving, it is expected that it will not be ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building will safely pass Earth on Dec. 4, 2024. It's classed as a “potentially ...

Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest ...

Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new ...

Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...

The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.