The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

A 210-foot asteroid will zoom past Earth on December 13, 2024. It will travel at 41,421 km/h. The asteroid will come within 6 ...

The Main Asteroid Belt's smallest ever asteroids have been detected, as discovered in a new study. The belt is located ...

Experience one of nature's most spectacular events with tips on when and where to see this year's Geminid meteor shower.

The lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office shares expert tips on how to catch the Geminid meteor shower—even with a ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

Astronomers at MIT have detected the smallest asteroids ever, measuring just 10 metres across, using data from NASA's James ...

The cosmic display – famed for its strong, bright and consistent fireballs – is reaching its peak activity for the year ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking three asteroids. These celestial visitors will safely pass Earth on December 12, ...

The rocky bodies, which look like asteroids but act like comets, could comprise up to 60% of near-Earth objects.

A reanalysis of the data from the "rubber-ducky" comet 67P, collected nearly a decade ago, suggests comets may have deposited ...

NASA has announced the discovery of seven astronomical objects that come in two flavors; they look like asteroids but ...