A rare stargazing spectacle will unfold on Friday, April 13, 2029, as the asteroid Apophis passes closer than satellites over Europe and Africa.

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

Learn about the largest batch of asteroid discoveries from the last year, which scientists say “is just the tip of the ...

NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed bynear-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the potential to cause devastating damage to cities. While some large asteroids ...

Scientists estimate there are thousands of asteroids large enough to destroy a city near Earth. NASA is sending a telescope ...

Scientists at the Rubin Observatory have identified nearly 11,000 asteroids, including hundreds beyond Neptune and 33 ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately collided with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 14,000 miles per hour in September 2022, initial headlines celebrated humanity’s having redirected a ...

Scientists detected water molecules on the surface of two asteroids for the first time ever. The team made the discovery using data from NASA's now-retired SOFIA airborne observatory. When you ...

This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers have identified 19 super- and ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases in asteroid Ryugu samples, suggesting the key building blocks of DNA and RNA are ...

Using preliminary data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, scientists have discovered over 11,000 new asteroids. The data ...