But Not Too Close NASA has confirmed the approach of asteroid 2019 NW5. The space rock is expected to fly past Earth on 9 ...

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

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

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

Before humans reach Mars, NASA wants to test its long-duration spaceflight capabilities by sending a crewed mission to a near-Earth asteroid. Using SpaceX’s Starship and Falcon Heavy, three astronauts ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

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

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

Imagine the sound of a dinosaur roaring... Super loud, right? Wrong... It turns out the giant prehistoric creatures almost ...