An asteroid the size of a school bus is heading towards our planet, zipping past us twice as close as our own moon today. The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is one of the first handful of asteroids ...

When you’re hurtling through space on the side of an asteroid, even a small misstep could cause serious damage — or even leave you stranded in space, drifting away from the rock itself.

A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).

According to the reports presented by various online sources, today, an asteroid named 2024 XS3 will make a close pass by Earth. Don’t worry- - it won’t hit us! NASA has confirmed that it’s ...

Tianwen-2 is an asteroid sample return mission with near-Earth asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3) as its destination. The asteroid is roughly the size of a Ferris wheel – between 150 and 190 ...

Isotopes in the fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived at the time suggest that Earth's climate did not swerve in the 150,000 years following the asteroid strikes, according to the new study.

A huge asteroid with is set to fly past Earth on Friday the 13th in 2029 - at a distance of less than 20,000 miles. The massive 1,000-metre-wide cosmic projectile is 28 times bigger than the ...

The source of the Quadrantids is debris from the asteroid 2003 EH1.When these fast-moving space rocks enter Earth's atmosphere, the debris encounters new resistance from the air and becomes very ...

Every year, we get to experience not only the wonders of the sky, but also missions to space that expand our knowledge of our universe. This year, we were treated with a total solar eclipse ...

Asteroid 2024 XS3, a small Apollo asteroid, safely passed Earth at a distance of 3.3 million kilometers on December 18, 2024. This close approach provided astronomers with a valuable opportunity ...