As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth today, May 2, 2025, with an alarming speed of 42,300 ...

Recent discoveries have challenged previous assumptions about the space near Earth, revealing a potential population of ...

A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

NASA is also tracking two other asteroids near Earth today, including a larger bus-sized one called "2025 HR1" that's ...

Not for too much longer, though: According to LiveScience, a telescope analysis by Dutch space researcher and satellite ...