NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has been firing its electric thrusters almost without a break since Sept. 28, and the agency says it ...

New simulations reveal the one option left when warning time runs out—and it’s nuclear.

On Friday, April 13, 2029, asteroid Apophis will sweep just 19,400 miles above Earth — closer than geostationary satellites — and be visible to the naked eye.

A giant asteroid named Apophis is set to make its unusual close encounter to Earth in exactly 900 days. On Friday, April 13, ...

NASA's DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos at a speed of approximately 6 km/s. This was the first experiment ...

Asteroid 99942 Apophis will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth on April 13, 2029, offering scientists a rare opportunity to ...

A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, ...

With a successful Mars gravity assist in its rearview mirror, NASA's Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is ...

REx asteroid-sampling mission formally ended on Sept. 30, 2026, though scientists will continue to study the pieces of space ...

We now have a clearer picture of what happened in the decades following the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of almost all dinosaurs ...

Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved naming an asteroid after musician and actor 'Weird' Al Yankovic.