Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among other recent astronomical headlines, unusual online chatter is surrounding a "second moon" orbiting Earth, but the buzz ...

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed bynear-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the ...

NASA is tracking two house-sized asteroids as they get closer and closer to Earth. One asteroid, named "2025 VW," is predicted to make its closest approach at about 1.29 million miles from the planet.

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a skyscraper ... or at least, it's something as big as those things. Several large asteroids are set to pass by Earth this week, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

NASA planetary defense experts warn that up to 15,000 undetected asteroids could devastate a major city on Earth.

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

NASA has since downgraded that possibility to zero percent, but the asteroid continues to be tracked by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope this week as there's a 4 percent chance it could collide with ...

Among other recent astronomical headlines, unusual online chatter is surrounding a "second moon" orbiting Earth, but the buzz doesn't describe the discovery quite right. Earth has only one true ...

Earth has one true moon, but there are also several asteroids known as quasi-moons that are in orbit with the sun. A newly discovered asteroid, 2025 PN7, is the seventh confirmed quasi-moon that ...