The asteroid Apophis, also known as 99942 Apophis, will have its historic close approach to Earth on Friday, the 13th of ...

Explaining NASA’s DART mission and how it aims to stop a threatening asteroid by demonstrating controlled impact technology ...

The organization said in a statement on Wednesday that the Minor Planet Center (MPC), in cooperation with the Pan-African ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

A recently discovered asteroid, about the size of a small building, could strike the Moon on December 22, 2032. While the ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

Scientists have sought out and detected radio emissions from from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, all but confirming that it has natural origins.

In a similar vein, the 2023 source, cs2, recently emerged from another rare yet sizable asteroid collision. The impact poofed ...

BEIJING -- An asteroid has been named after Qi Faren, a renowned Chinese space technology expert, according to the China Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

City-sized butterfly crater discovered in Mars’ Idaeus Fossae region Wings suggest buried ice melted by asteroid impact ...

Unlike YR4, finding earlier observations of 3I/ATLAS to model where it might have come from was easier said than done. During its July 1, 2025 detection, the interstellar object happened to be moving ...