Insurance companies globally will be monitoring the risks associated with a “city-killing” asteroid that could collide with ...

Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for NASA chief, is expected to focus on sending humans to Mars rather than landing them on the ...

NASA shared new ground-based telescope observations of the rock, which is estimated be about 130 to 300 feet (40 to 90 metres ...

Scientists have their eye on the sky as an asteroid making its way toward earth that could be the size of a football field has come into view.The asteroid dubbed "2024 YR4" was first ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Japanese researchers have discovered salt minerals on the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting that liquid water may have once been ...

Alpha Centauri and our Sun may be exchanging space rocks, with interstellar objects hiding in the Oort Cloud or burning up in ...

When it was first discovered, YR4 had a 1-in-83 chance of striking Earth. It increased to 1-in-67, then 1-in-53, then to 1-in ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Today: On Feb. 18, 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, at that time classified as the ninth planet.