A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent ...

Scientists have spotted a small asteroid that may circle Earth as a mini moon before shifting onto a path that could make it a hazard later in the century. NASA has calculated the asteroid’s orbit and ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

Planetary defense efforts, formalized after the 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact, aim to catalog and track hazardous near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) capable of causing significant damage, with mandates ...

This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...

Asteroids are no longer just celestial curiosities on a telescope chart; they are emerging as test beds for a new resource ...

This week, Earth will get its best chance to steady an interstellar comet as it makes its closest approach to the planet.

Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

There is this saying that the more you know about something, the more likely you are to grow concerned about some aspect of it. The validity of this saying became painfully clear when reading this ...

Astronomers detect "wobbling high-latitude jet" in comet 3I/ATLAS, according to a preprint paper. A new mutation of flu ...

The familiar script of planetary defence has been torn up. For decades, the globe's foremost space agencies operated under ...

If you have any clear night skies this week, bundle up and get outside to see the best meteor shower of the year!