Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

Astronomers were left less than impressed when they uncovered the truth about an asteroid they'd been keeping an eye on. On ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking the asteroid 2024 YY5. The space rock will approach Earth on Sunday, January 26.

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...