One Alabama woman was rudely awoken from a nap in 1954 when a meteorite came through her roof and hit her, leaving a big bruise.

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

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

NASA warns about asteroid 2025 BK, a giant 160-ft space rock speeding towards Earth at 37,583 kilometres per hour.

Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...

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.

Emily Simpson, a passionate space enthusiast and recent Florida Tech graduate, has published groundbreaking research that imagines an alternate version of our solar system. Instead of the asteroid ...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...

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

The small near-Earth object 2024 PT5 captured the world’s attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to, but never orbiting, our planet for several months.