With a 4% chance of hitting the moon in 2032, an asteroid named YR4’s potential collision course is being monitored by NASA.

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

A clear look at the discovery of 40,000 near-Earth asteroids, how scientists track them, and the missions working to keep our ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

The UN and IAWN have chosen interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS for a global planetary-defence exercise to refine tracking methods.

Astronomers were slow at spotting a small giraffe-sized asteroid that zoomed past our planet on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, ...

An asteroid could wipe out humanity, but it's unlikely. Near-misses are more common than impacts, though planetary defence is ...

The unusual comet—which is to pass Earth again in the coming weeks—is only the third known object to visit us from outside ...

NASA will go live today to share long-awaited images of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Is it nearing Earth? How ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a ...

Discover how scientists are using Martian orbiters to track its path and what its mysterious radio signals reveal about its nature.

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...