Efforts to shield Earth from asteroid impacts have advanced, but significant gaps remain in planetary defence systems. Robin ...

NASA's NEOWISE reveals 15 years of cosmic discoveries, from asteroids to stunning infrared images, leaving a lasting legacy.

NASA has announced that asteroid 2019 JN2 will safely fly past Earth on November 30, 2024. Despite its proximity of 3.59 ...

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

Asteroid 2022 WJ1 made first and final contact with our planet on November 19, 2022. It is now estimated to be an S-chondrite ...

The asteroid, named 2024 WF5, will come over twice as close to us as the moon, at a distance of around 104,000 miles.

Defying the ageist assumption that older adults are doddery, forgetful and addled, members of the Science Salon at the Susi Q ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

Square Kilometer Array A 120-meter diameter radio telescope is under construction in China and, once built, will be the world ...

A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...

Last year, researchers excitedly announced that they had found two organic compounds essential for living organisms in ...