Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

The Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't peak until August. Here's how to see them in Ohio.

Get ready for the most anticipated meteor shower of the year, coming to a night sky near you! The Perseids meteor show is known for a high rate of brightly colored meteor streaks and less frequent but ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

The Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the summer night sky beginning in July. But it won't peak until August. Here's how to see them in Ohio.

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile dinosaur ...

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