According to NASA, “Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...

A large asteroid strike on the Moon could have negative consequences for the artificial satellites we now depend on. That ...

American space agency NASA announced the completion of the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, described as a success.

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space.

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.

The asteroid named 2025 FA22 was once categorised as potentially hazardous and is said to fly by Earth on September 12.

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A space exploration mission to study an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into three years ago has taken stunning bonus images of Mars and its moon Deimos en route to its final ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

Until recently, we could only study geology by looking at rocks on Earth and the Moon —well, and the rare meteor or two that ...