The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Most people are aware that an asteroid wiped out much of life on Earth around 65 million years ago, and this knowledge ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment.

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

Looking up at the night sky often brings peace. Occasionally, space visitors capture public attention. One such visitor is ...

You’re more likely to be killed by an asteroid than struck by lightning — and scientists have the numbers to prove it. From ...

A large Martian meteorite found in Niger recently sold at auction. Now, the country is investigating the legality of its ...

Luis Walter Alvarez’s career was marked by two explosions. The first was one the physicist enabled: a plutonium bomb, whose ...

NASA only labels space rocks as hazardous if they are closer than 7.4 million kilometres and wider than 85 metres.

Rakshabandhan this year coincides with an alert from NASA regarding asteroid 2025 OY12, a 100-foot object set to pass Earth ...

Meteorite that crashed into Georgia home is believed to have originated from the main asteroid belt, making it 4.56 billion ...