Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of an "interstellar object" named 3I/Atlas passing through the inner solar system.

Early predictions suggested a 1% chance of a collision with Earth, a figure that was later revised to a remarkably low 0.004% ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 NJ, measuring about 65 feet wide, will make its closest approach on 7 July.

Audit finds budget uncertainties and tiny staff make it hard to mount a fight against killer space rocks NASA is struggling ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released a sneak peak of some of the images it is unveiling, the first set of space images from ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically ...

"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...