NASA is closely tracking asteroid Apophis, a massive Near-Earth Object that could cause widespread destruction if it collides ...

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

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

And all Lauretta, the mission’s leader, could do was watch, and hope, that his life’s obsession ... whether he wanted to ...

The Northern Taurids is the second meteor shower of three to peak in November, following the Southern Taurids that peaked ...

November brings sky watchers brilliant views, with the Northern Taurids and Leonid meteor showers peaking this week and a ...

The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October and November. They may have originated from a comet that ...

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

reads a description on the agency's asteroid watch dashboard. The average distance from the surface of the planet to its satellite is 239,000 miles although the exact length varies at different ...

The asteroids range from 100ft to 580ft across, and two of these space rocks were only discovered earlier this month, according to Nasa’s asteroid watch dashboard. The largest of them ...