It was in 2018, when Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk took the audacious step of 'strapping' a car before launching it into ...

NASA has issued an alert for a 100-foot asteroid hurtling towards Earth tomorrow. Should you be concerned? Let's dive in and ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Through the International Asteroid Discovery Project, Daksh Malik successfully discovered asteroid 2023 OG40 in the main ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the solar system: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

The Alinda asteroid will be visible with binoculars in a 'once in a decade' event as it brushes past Earth, with its return to the planet not expected until 2087 ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...