The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

An asteroid, approximately the size of a small aircraft, will safely pass by Earth today, posing no threat to our planet, confirms NASA.

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

Space enthusiasts are tracking Asteroid 2025 MM. It is airplane-sized. It will safely pass by Earth this week. The asteroid ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

NASA has identified 2025 MM as part of the Aten group, a family of asteroids that regularly cross Earth’s orbital path.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

The mysterious blast site of the Tunguska Event of 1908 is revealed in satellite images obtained by NASA’s Operational Land ...

Today in the history of astronomy, an asteroid flattens 830 square miles of Siberian forest.

Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...