A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...

NASA and the International Asteroid Warning Network have launched a global campaign to track comet 3I/ATLAS and strengthen ...

According to NASA, "Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...

Contrary to online rumors, Earth still only has one true moon, but astronomers have discovered a so-called 'quasi-moon.' Here ...

Have you heard about Asteroid Apophis? It's like the rockstar of space—cool name, big impact! This bad boy has been causing a ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

A plane-sized asteroid scheduled to pass Earth next week is making headlines, but NASA experts want the public to understand why this encounter is more routine than remarkable. The asteroid is named ...

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...

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CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...