NASA has a planetary defense project that identified possible threats in near our solar system that could cause another mass ...

The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...

The task helps them survey the vast landscapes of the universe — from the Earth to the moon — in a space known as the Heat ...

Watch Asteroid 2024 JN16 making a close approach to Earth. Credit: Space.com | animation/data: ESA | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

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For decades, scientists have suspected that large volcanic eruptions have their origins in two mysterious massive regions at ...

Scientists have calculated the odds of a catastrophic asteroid impact compared to other causes of death—to surprising results ...

"It has been included in the potentially hazardous list," the laboratory of solar astronomy of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

A large Martian meteorite found in Niger recently sold at auction. Now, the country is investigating the legality of its ...

The meteorite is roughly 4.56 billion years old, and experts believe it’s a chip off an asteroid from the belt between Mars ...