Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of ...

Astronomer Patrick M. Shober found a new meteor shower—and it comes from an asteroid getting broken down by the Sun.

The asteroid is on the European Space Agency's Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach.

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course ...

NASA confirms asteroid 2026 GD, about 54 feet wide, will pass Earth on April 9, 2026 at 156,000 miles closer than the Moon.

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands ...

With Communist China targeting a crewed lunar landing by 2030, Artemis II shows why the Moon race is a contest for strategic ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away, and then accurately predicted its position almost seven years into the ...

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases in asteroid Ryugu samples, suggesting the key building blocks of DNA and RNA are ...

The asteroid Ryugu is seen by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from a distance of 6 kilometers. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, ...