NASA is considering going Armageddon on an asteroid that could crash into our Moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was earlier predicted to hit Earth, but later calculations put our planet in the safe zone ...

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be ...

A massive comet traveling through the solar system is much larger than previously thought and could be a remnant of alien ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...

In September 2025, an X post viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video an ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, will be visible from ground-based telescopes through the end of ...

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.

In July, NASA reported its ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Chile identified a comet that originated from interstellar space. Arriving in the direction of the ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this ...