Scientists have reevaluated the catastrophic impact of the Chicxulub asteroid that struck 66 million years ago, revising the ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

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

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

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

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) detected a burst of low-energy X-rays. Astronomers call such X-rays "soft," ...