The project in the Atacama Desert could increase light pollution by up to 50%, making it much harder to observe the cosmos ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Asteroid 2014 TN17, measuring 540 feet wide, will safely pass Earth on March 26, 2025, despite being classified as ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

As part of its ongoing efforts to enhance research and practical applications in asteroid observation, the Sharjah Academy ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some ...

Despite their overall similarities, asteroids are usually pretty distinct from one another. Vesta has a very different ...

TN17, a giant space rock as big as the Taj Mahal, is hurtling towards Earth at 77,282 km/h, classified as a potentially ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...