China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft captured a selfie with Earth when it was about 26.7 million miles (44M km) from Earth and 28 ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock is too far away for most Earth-based instruments.

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

Scientists discussed the threat of asteroids at a recent conference in Phoenix. Here's what they said.

NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed bynear-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the ...

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

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Astronomers do not know where thousands of “city-killer” asteroids are, Nasa’s head of planetary defence has admitted.

Friday the 13th is a famously unlucky date. Even though some people dismiss it, these horrible events happened on this day throughout history.

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

The comet is now racing away from the sun following a close flyby on Jan. 20.