The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday it is sending a team to investigate an October 29 close call between a Southwest Airlines jet and helicopter near Cleveland International ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact in 2032 has prompted renewed consideration of nuclear disruption as a planetary ...

Astronomers have identified 2025 SC79, a new asteroid with a remarkably fast 128-day orbit, placing it among the ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

Experts believe that a five-foot-wide piece of space debris discovered near an Australian mining town was part of a dead ...

The 2025 Orionid meteor shower peak begins overnight on Oct. 20-21, when 10-20 shooting stars may be visible streaking across ...

While most of them are small and disappear in the atmosphere, some of them come alarmingly close to our planet. While ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Taking a few extra seconds at a stop sign to check for oncoming traffic could make all the difference in avoiding a potential crash. One Staten Island driver may have learned ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. The European Space ...

2025 TF is a small asteroid just 3 to 6 feet (1 to 3 meters) wide. It's considered a near-Earth asteroid because, like other space rocks in this category, it comes within 1.3 AU (astronomical units) ...

An asteroid about the size of a small building zoomed past Earth unnoticed by astronomers last week, coming as close to the Earth’s surface as the International Space Station, according to the ...

Passing at an altitude of just 265 miles (428 kilometres), the asteroid came closer to the Earth's surface than the orbit of the International Space Station.