When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

The sun will eventually become a red giant, engulfing Earth in about 5 billion years. More solar energy hits Earth in one ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia flattened approximately 2,150 sq.km of forest. This was attributed to the airburst ...

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact could trigger a "spectacular ...

Arizona Sen. Kelly is introducing a Senate resolution making June 30 as Asteroid Day to boost public awareness of space science and planetary defense.

Asteroids range in size, with the largest one about 329 miles in diameter. An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals.