Does the scientific community as a whole share the notion that a newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an alien ...

When you look up at the night sky, you might wonder about the celestial objects that streak through space,comets, asteroids, ...

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...

NASA has detected two large near-Earth asteroids, named 2025 OA3 and 2025 PA, both set to make their closest approach to our ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

Sky watchers may have reason to look up this week. NASA has confirmed that two asteroids will fly past Earth on August 3. The ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds as its revised trajectory is now ...

"In my opinion, planetary defense is an operational mission which should be formally tasked to U.S. Space Command." ...

Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned in new research. The giant space rocks are ...

Several massive asteroids are expected to whiz close to Earth in the coming weeks, including one nearly the size of the Empire State Building. Two are expected to soar near the planet on Saturday ...