Looking up at the night sky often brings peace. Occasionally, space visitors capture public attention. One such visitor is ...

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Asteroid Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029, but scientists have confirmed there's no threat of a collision. Find out ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise orbit, the calculation usually gives scientists a cloud of its possible ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

Fossils of mosasaurs and early mammals found in Louisiana reveal how life changed after the asteroid that ended the age of ...

"This particular meteor that entered the atmosphere has a long history before it made it to the ground of McDonough".

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 OJ10, measuring around 87 feet wide, will pass Earth on 13 August. Travelling at 14,390 miles per hour, it will come within 2,190,000 miles of the planet.

On a clear June day in Georgia, a blazing fireball suddenly fell out of the sky over the Atlanta metro area. The source of ...

The latest data on asteroid 2024 YR4 has scientists confident that Earth is no longer in the bullseye. However the enormous space rock could hit the moon in late 2032 and that could have some ...