The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

That day is the center of “Impact: The End of the Age of the Dinosaurs,” a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. “There’s no doubt — well, arguably at least — that ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...

Imaging suggests that a lot of the material coming off is in the form of dust grains. NASA indicated that two missions to ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS got an accuracy boost thanks to a Mars orbiter, giving scientists insights and stronger planetary ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed flourishing communities. Alamosaurus was one of the last dinosaurs from ...

An asteroid with the second-fastest unique orbit in the solar system—one that sees it traveling a complete run around our star in just 128 days—has been found hiding in the sun’s glare. Known as 2025 ...