Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

Prof Alan Fitzsimons is an astronomer from Queen’s University Belfast and has been assisting with the asteroid mission for ...

While we are fascinated (sometimes alarmed) by space rocks hurtling towards Earth, we often fail to distinguish between asteroids, meteoroids, and meteors. Here's a rundown of their differences.

A 17-foot asteroid, roughly the size of an airplane, will approach Earth on October 4. Named 2024 TF, it will pass by at a ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

NASA's Psyche mission has sent signal from Mars orbit, marking a critical milestone of the mission, NASA said on Thursday.

A telescope in Hawaii captured a rare comet as it passes near Earth. The footage was captured on 2 October by the National ...

The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and ...

Two asteroids, 2024 TE (car-sized) and 2024 SR4 (aircraft-sized), are on an Earth-approach path today. Will it have any ...

Scientists a month later at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ... which lies far beyond Pluto. NASA describes the Oort Cloud as giant spherical shell of icy space debris that ...

A SECOND meteor slammed into earth the same time as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Scientists at a Scots uni discovered a crater in 2022 believed to left behind by the space rock millions ...