An asteroid is labelled risky if it comes within 7.4 million kilometres and measures more than 85 metres across.

A rare lunar occultation, fading crescent moon, and an interstellar visitor make for a memorable week of stargazing in ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

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

Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

Even with many lawmakers in favor of maintaining NASA's budget, a flat budget is still a funding cut when accounting for inflation. Moreover, NASA has already been negatively affected by the Trump ...

The largest piece of Mars on Earth has sold for $5.3m. Meteorite NWA 16788, offered by Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, July ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.