NASA has identified a newly discovered near-Earth asteroid which has sparked interest due to its potential for impact.

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

Further research might bring those odds down to zero, but we will likely have to wait a couple of years to know for sure ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

With the new year underway, it’s time to celebrate a remarkable 2024 full of citizen science with the Unistellar Network! Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers came together once again to ...