NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

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

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...

The Taurids Meteor Shower, which enchants sky watchers every year from late October through November, is soon set to reach ...

Recapping some of the most talked-about news this week from the nation and around the world – in case you missed it.

A whistleblower claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has 'swerved to aim at Earth', putting our planet '0.015° dead center ...

On Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanically active world—you’ll find the mountain Ionian Mons. Its height is estimated at nearly 8 miles. All in all, scientists have discovered more than ...

Is 3I/ATLAS a comet or an alien vessel? Dive into the facts on the interstellar object, the shocking claims of leaked footage, NASA's activated Planetary Defence Network, and why Harvard's Avi Loeb ...