Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

On January 26, 2025, an asteroid called 2024 YY5 will fly by Earth, which has sparked interest in the scientific and space ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

Asteroid tracking plays a crucial role in understanding and mitigating potential threats. NASA, along with ground-based ...

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

Quiver Distribution has shared a poster and trailer for director Andrew Johnson’s apocalyptic romance When I’m Ready ahead of ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

A mountain-sized asteroid will be visible from Earth this weekend in a "once in a decade" event. The massive space rock zoomed past Earth earlier this month, but it is not out of view just yet and ...

Larger than 99 per cent of known space rocks, the asteroid ranks among the five largest celestial objects expected to come within 15 billion kilometres of Earth from now until 2200. Jake Foster, a ...

This asteroid will pass Earth later on the same day at 7:41 AM IST, at about 1,800,000 kilometers (about 1.1 million miles). Like 2024 YW9, this close approach does not threaten Earth because it ...