Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of ...

Astronomers have announced that Earth has gained a new cosmic companion, a small asteroid named 2025 PN7, which will accompany our planet for the next half-century. Although some have nicknamed it ...

A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...

TN2, the largest of four, will safely pass Earth today at 1.34 million km. There is no threat from it, said NASA.

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...

Watch Orionid meteor shower 2025 light up tonight's sky. Here's when, where, what time to see the bright Orionids peak ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from the chopping block in a last-minute decision. There will be a significant ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

This illustration shows the creation of an asteroid family. Ejected fragments from catastrophic collisions of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter tend to follow similar orbits around the sun, allowing ...

The Orionid meteor shower is active each year from about Oct. 2 to Nov. 7, according to the American Meteor Society. This ...