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

The asteroid will make a close approach to Earth just three days following its discovery.

One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away ...

The night sky across Houston briefly flashed Saturday night, followed by a sonic boom. It was caused by a meteor, which have ...

NASA confirms two airplane-sized asteroids will safely pass Earth on April 4, 2026. No collision risk exists. Comet MAPS will also approach the Sun, monitored by SOHO spacecraft.

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

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

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling fireball that was ...

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

And I had always heard that Jupiter protected us from asteroids, not that it launched them at the Earth.

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...