OSIRIS-REx was one of NASA’s most impressive successes in years. In 2020, it successfully touched down on a near-Earth ...

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

Space enthusiasts are tracking Asteroid 2025 MM. It is airplane-sized. It will safely pass by Earth this week. The asteroid ...

The mysterious blast site of the Tunguska Event of 1908 is revealed in satellite images obtained by NASA’s Operational Land ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet. The first of these little-known companions to the Jovian giant was ...

World Asteroid Day is celebrated every year on 30 June. The purpose of this day is to make people aware of asteroids and the ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

A fireball flashed across the Southeast sky Thursday, with booms and shaking reported in Georgia. NWS meteorologists say ...