Forget asteroid 2024 YR4; two space rocks crashed into the Moon last week. A Japanese astronomer observed two massive bursts of light on the Moon and started scrambling for answers. Experts have now ...

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Stargazers using telescopes should be able to see the object in the predawn sky beginning Nov. 11, according to EarthSky.

The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact in 2032 has prompted renewed consideration of nuclear disruption as a planetary ...

NASA and Toho University reveal how rising solar radiation and climate change could make Earth uninhabitable sooner than ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

This possibility also raises concerns about Earth’s safety. Although it is unlikely that the ejected debris would reach our planet—considering the Moon’s gravity and the vast distances involved—any ...

NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...

One of the missions, currently on its way to an asteroid, has been saved, but the fate of several others depend on the outcome of the budget dispute. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes NASA ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. The European Space ...