Security camera footage posted on the social media platform Sina Weibo captured the scene of two family members reacting to ...

The Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the presumed asteroid on January 2 - even giving it an official name of ...

The asteroid C0WEPC5 has burned up over the Siberian night sky. It produced an impressive spectacle of light. Corbin Burnes Lands $210 Million Contract With Surprise National League West Team ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

Asteroids have significantly impacted Earth's history through numerous collisions, shaping the planet's geography and ...

A big asteroid, the size of the Empire State Building, called 2024 WY70 is on a collision course with Earth this weekend.

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our moon. Its ...

we could stop an impact actually happening in the first place Professor Alan Fitzsimmons “You don’t destroy the asteroid, you explode it above the surface of the asteroid, and that vaporises ...

An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards our planet, zipping past us twice as close as our own moon today. The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is one of the first handful of asteroids ...

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).