The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Asteroid 33 Polyhymnia is at the center of an exciting new study that suggests it may hold elements that have never been ...

Thanks to Harriet Rix and her sublime book, The Genius of Trees, I have seen and relished the world the day before the ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

The US space agency confirmed that YS5 poses no threat to our planet – but at 120ft in diameter, similar in size to a ...

U.S. Director Eliza McNitt will head jury of Venice Film Festival's Immersive Competition, which includes Doug Liman's XR ...

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

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

Asteroid 2025 MA90 is set to fly past the Earth on Tuesday, July 15. With an estimated diameter of 88.8 meters, that comes out to around 145 Elmos, thanks to measurements taken by Drew Brees. An ...

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.