David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

BEIJING -- An asteroid has been named after Qi Faren, a renowned Chinese space technology expert, according to the China ...

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

An international group of scientists recently discovered that samples taken from an asteroid contain bio-essential sugars, ...

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking asteroid 2025 XV, a 290-foot building-sized object, set to safely pass Earth on December 18.

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

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A shrinking (human) population could be cause for concern. It means fewer working-age people to support the old. Fiscal ...

The asteroid with international designation 336877, discovered by the Nanjing-based Purple Mountain Observatory of the ...