Sixty six million years ago, a massive asteroid impact wiped out about three quarters of all life on Earth, including every ...

By transforming idle heliostats into asteroid detectors, scientists aim to develop a cost-effective method for spotting faint ...

NASA's Goldstone Planetary Radar Observes Fast-Spinning Asteroid This series of 41 radar images obtained by the Deep Space ...

Space is an active place. Asteroid 2025 OT7 will fly by Earth in August 2025. It is about 170 feet wide. It will travel at ...

Space agencies worldwide meticulously track near-Earth objects, even those posing no immediate threat. Asteroid 2025 OT7, ...

Since 2017, three interstellar objects have been spotted passing through our solar system: 1I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov… and just ...

To keep solar power stations from getting lazy, Sandia National Laboratories scientist John Sandusky is looking to give ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

A comet that was born in another solar system and could be billions of years old is hurdling through Earth’s solar system — a ...

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it might hit the moon.

Although it won’t hit Earth, an asteroid once labeled a “city killer” is now back in the spotlight — this time, because it ...

KTLA speaks with Davide Farnocchia, navigation engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who works in the agency’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. He shares how scientists tracked the ...