The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the theory that asteroids could have delivered life’s building blocks to Earth 3.5 billion years ago.

The curious minds at Aperture examine whether the vast resources in space could turn asteroid mining into the next ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...