When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

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.

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

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

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

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

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

NASA has confirmed that a mysterious object hurtling towards us is an "interstellar object" that has entered the Solar System ...