The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Had the asteroid hit the moon, it would have carved out a crater in an impact with the energy of a nuclear bomb.

So far, 2026 has offered up some celestial spectacles, including a total lunar eclipse and a planetary parade. But the ...

The Rubin Observatory’s real-time alert system can detect millions of cosmic events per night, from asteroids to supernovae, ...

The transition from non-life to life was very likely aided by an asteroid hitting Earth, prebiotic chemistry, molecular ...

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 ...

A 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officiall.

Asteroid 2026 CU1 will sweep past Earth this week at high speed, close enough to attract attention yet deemed safe, raising ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

NASA officials and planetary defense experts have been discussing a major gap in Earth’s asteroid detection efforts: a large number of medium-sized near-Earth asteroids remain undiscovered. Reports ...

A model of satellite ...