China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Space enthusiasts are tracking Asteroid 2025 MM. It is airplane-sized. It will safely pass by Earth this week. The asteroid ...

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Tuesday released images of Earth and the moon captured by the country's ...

The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on December 22 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this probability ...

The asteroid, also known as 469219 Kamo'oalewa, orbits the sun, so it remains a constant companion of Earth. It is too ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...