The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes rush to tra ...

YR4 was first reported to the Minor Planet Center – the international clearing house for small body positional measurements – ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 has a 97.9% chance to safely pass the Earth in 2032, as per NASA scientists. If it strikes, the ...

Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

YR4 is currently being monitored by NASA and the European Space Agency, with the space rock potentially set to strike Earth ...

Super Earth is in crisis as the Meridian Singularity wipes out Angel's Venture, killing 480,000—now five more planets are in its deadly path.

We interrupt our regular schedule of fish puns and naughty jokes about holes to warn you that a huge chunk of celestial ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks ...

Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have moons astronomers think might be harboring liquid ...