NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock—named "2025 DJ22"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be ...

Asteroids DO regularly hit Earth's atmosphere – think back to the Chelyabinsk Event in Russia that blazed over the southern ...

More than 38,000 asteroids are known to be in Earth’s vicinity, including 973 “planet killers” of more than half a mile in diameter. Most pose no risk. But NASA estimates that only about 43% of nearby ...

Asked what people should do if astronomers identified a “city-killer” asteroid on a collision course for the United States, ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

NASA’s NEO Surveyor will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2027 The mission aims to detect asteroids that pose a threat to Earth The spacecraft will use infrared tech to track hazardous space objects ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, part of an ambitious mission to explore the outer solar system, has successfully captured its first ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero, after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

Naomi Oreskes talks about Donald Trump and her latest book The Big Myth ahead of her visit to Australia in early March.