An 1,100-foot asteroid named Apophis will pass Earth in 2029 closer than our satellites, with gravity potentially shifting ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact in 2032 has prompted renewed consideration of nuclear disruption as a planetary ...

The Psyche probe captures images of Earth and the Moon from over 180 million miles away as it travels to intercept an ...

An animation of an asteroid's close approach to Earth has garnered considerable interest in recent times, largely due to its apparent proximity to our planet. The animation, shared by Facebook page ...

Answer: It’s a comet that comes from another stellar system, from another star. It’s the third one we’ve ever discovered. The first, 1I/ʻOumuamua, resembled an asteroid more than a comet, but the ...

UN launches a global planetary-defence campaign as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS speeds past Earth, sparking both scientific curiosity and international cooperation—though NASA insists there is no ...

The internet has been ablaze with rumors that NASA confirmed that "Earth has two moons until 2083," the truth is, Earth only has one moon, but has been joined by asteroid 2025 PN7, a "quasi-moon" that ...

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...

An autumn meteor shower yearly responsible for “Halloween fireballs” may pose a small impact threat to Earth. What is the ...

Who will this class become? That is the question I posed to our newest undergraduate students as they filled the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center for one of my favorite traditions of the academic ...

The European Space Agency said Tuesday it has opened its first permanent office in Asia in Tokyo, positioning the facility as a strategic base to deepen Japan-Europe cooperation in cosmic exploration ...

Scheduled to open in 2029, the Mars-V camp in Mongolia is a space simulation center that allows participants to experience ...