NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

Watch out, Earth! A colossal 99-foot asteroid named 2024 CR9 is approaching our planet! 🌍✨ Stay informed and curious as we ...

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Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...