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

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.

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

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

NASA sent a rocket to probe an asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 that could hypothetically turn every single person on Planet Earth into billionaires just over a year ago and its employees ...

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 ...