Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

The solar system has an uninvited guest that is currently shooting toward us on a one-way trip through our cosmic ...

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...

In the 1980s, the theory that dinosaurs were wiped out by a massive meteor that hit the Earth began to gain scientific ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

If rocks could talk, this one (NWA 16788) would have a great tale to tell. It was ejected from its own planet by a massive ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

In this paper, regarding the asteroid powered de-scent scenario, the asteroid gravity PINN model and the successive convexification method are adopted to solve the fuel-consumption minimal 6-DoF ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...