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 ...

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

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

YR4 was discovered just a month ago. It is being monitored because there is a possibility – though very small – of impact ...

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.

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

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

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

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.

A building-sized asteroid found in 2024 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. For the first time ever, a planetary ...