The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft captured a selfie with Earth when it was about 26.7 million miles (44M km) from Earth and 28 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

European Space agency begun its investigation on the fireball meteor that struck a German home in Europe. It entered the ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger Didymos around the sun.

Explore Earth's cutting-edge defenses against asteroid impacts in this comprehensive overview. Learn how NASA and ESA are tracking thousands of Near-Earth Objects using advanced systems like SENTRY II ...

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...

A bus-sized asteroid called 2026 CC3 will fly close to Earth today as NASA tracks the spatial object.

NASA confirms that asteroid 2026 CC3, about the size of a bus, will make a close flyby of Earth on March 11, 2026, at a distance roughly four times that of the Moon’s orbit. Is this asteroid a "danger ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.