Skyscraper-sized asteroid to race past Earth at high speed
Meteorite spotted in the Southern sky Dashcam footage captures a large fireball in the sky over Lexington, South…
Here’s How to Deflect a Dangerous Asteroid Without It Totally Backfiring
In September 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, successfully altering the space rock’s trajectory. The…
See A Once-A-Decade Event As Huge Asteroid Flies Close To Earth
2025 FA22 was discovered using the Pan-STARRS 2 telescope in March this year. getty An asteroid the size…
Asteroid ice discovery may change ideas about origin of water on Earth
The parent body of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu appears to have harbored water in the form of ice for…
China’s dual-use asteroid-collision research threatens satellites
China has unveiled its mission to impact deliberately a near-Earth asteroid by 2030 – a decisive step toward…
Scientists Find Earth’s Hidden Quasi-Moon After 60 Years
2025 PN7 is a “quasi-moon” that appears to have been in orbit of Earth since the 1960s without…
World’s largest digital camera likely to discover interstellar objects, millions of asteroids
For a telescope designed to create the largest movie of the night sky, one small comet shooting through…
How to Watch an Asteroid Fly Uncomfortably Close to Earth on Wednesday
An asteroid the size of a commercial airplane will skim past our planet on Wednesday, September 3. Asteroid…
Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense
On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into…
Trippy Image From Deep Space Shows Earth and Moon From 180 Million Miles Away
The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well…
NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability
The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived…
NASA’s Psyche Captures Images of Earth, Moon
Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking…