A large asteroid will pass close to Earth in July 2025. NASA and ISRO are closely monitoring its trajectory. The asteroid, ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

Measuring about 1,200 feet wide, 2005 VO5 belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that frequently cross ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Bitcoin can't ever experience the same type of problem. On that note, 16 Psyche, an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, is estimated to contain between $10 quintillion and $700 quintillion ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

We’ve enjoyed a number of celestial spectacles in recent years – from total solar eclipses to stunning auroras – and yet, soon Earth will witness the space event to trump them all. In the next five ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...