Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and even collide with an asteroid that is making a very close flyby of ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward.

Now that its ancient journey is over, the rock begins a new chapter on Earth. Officially named the McDonough Meteorite, it is ...

Hubble has taken the clearest image to date of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is racing through our solar system at ...

A large asteroid, 1997 QK1, will safely pass Earth on August 20, 2025. NASA and ISRO will monitor this event. The asteroid is ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

The task helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe — from the Earth to the moon — in a space known as the Heat ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

However, the only person confirmed to be hit by a meteor strike is Ann Hodges, who was hit on her upper hip after a ...

"It has been included in the potentially hazardous list," the laboratory of solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said ...