NASA has been on an alert and its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been keeping track of three asteroids which will pass ...

The Hera mission will investigate the result of NASA’s asteroid redirection test, in which the U.S. agency rammed a ...

Every year, the Earth is treated to several meteor showers as we cross into their orbit, or they cross into ours. They are ...

Near-Earth asteroids are closely monitored due to their implications for planetary defense. The team utilized ground-based ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland used the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) telescope to study the Taurid swarm.

The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...

Astronomers have some reassuring news about a possible asteroid threat near our planet: there aren’t as many dangerous ...

Follow Europe Hera asteroid probe on its two-year voyage to study the Dimorphos asteroid after being bashed off course by ...

Hera will attempt to go into orbit around the rocky pair, with the flyby distances gradually dropping from 18 miles all the ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft has embarked on a groundbreaking mission to the binary asteroid system, Didymos, to enhance planetary defense techniques. This mission follows NASA's successful DART mission ...

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: there aren’t as many as we thought.

For the next two months, Earth will have a cosmic guest. A so-called “mini moon” will join our actual moon in circling the ...