The asteroid has been given a rating of 3 out of 10, indicating a "close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers." ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

NASA has revealed which countries could be hit if a “city killer” asteroid strikes Earth with a map of the risk corridor. Scientists have slashed the odds of a collision between ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor has passed its critical design review, clearing the way for construction and testing. This infrared ...

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Incredibly powerful marsquakes that violently shake the red planet don't always begin under the surface, research shows.

We asked experts at NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology what scientists know about the asteroid that could ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

With some creative use of the James Webb Space Telescope, Canadian researchers are now able to study two young planets as ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...