A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

An ancient asteroid impact in Australia is revealed in shards of glass created when the giant space rock collided with the ...

This week, scientists digging in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have discovered a new species of pachycephalosaur that pushes back ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

Our planet has apparently had a small companion that went undetected for decades. What took so long to find it and why was it hidden?

Hayabusa2 is now facing an unexpected challenge: the asteroid it is targeting for its next visit is much smaller than ...

The American Apophis Strategy is simple, powerful, and cost-effective: keep OSIRIS-APEX on track and unleash Janus through a public-private partnership. This would put the U.S. in the lead — not just ...

It wouldn’t be a 9-1-1 premiere without disaster striking hard. This time, it’s falling straight from the sky. ABC just ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

A gigantic asteroid, larger than a skyscraper, is racing toward Earth at over 24,000 mph in what scientists call a ...