Prepare for a celestial spectacle! A leviathan asteroid, whizzing by closer to our planet than any satellite, is set to ...

The Virtual Telescope Project is set to host a free YouTube stream covering the flyby starting at 7 p.m. ET (23:00 GMT) on ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has on average a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. While those odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to uncover ...

Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a potential ...

Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than ...

The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away ...

Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...

Tonight's the night. Those with telescopes and clear skies have the chance to watch a very speedy asteroid cross a large swath of the southern sky during evening hours across much of the western ...

Colorado was rated the second-best state for meteor and asteroid viewing, according to a new study. High elevation, dark skies and numerous observatories contributed to Colorado's high ranking. The ...

Learn more about the processes behind diverting asteroids and how experts must ensure we don't inadvertently knock them back into a collision course.