A team studying asteroids using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) proton beam has found a few complications with the idea ...

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

Astronomers are constantly tracking “potentially hazardous” objects in space, using advanced telescopes capable of detecting ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.

A new study from the University of São Paulo in Brazil said some asteroids orbiting Venus “can pose a collisional hazard to Earth” benmoss/Getty Experts say Venus is hiding some asteroids that could ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned in new research. The giant space rocks are believed ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.