A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially launched a new phase in its planetary defense program with the activation of ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided a new update on asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing important findings that refine ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

Called Asteroid 2025 FA22, the space rock was placed at number three on the risk list by the agency for "possible impact" ...

An asteroid, 2025 KX8, will closely approach Earth on June 4, 2025. NASA is monitoring the space rock, which is about 36 ...

A massive 190-foot asteroid, 2018 LE4, will make a close approach to Earth on June 7 at over 48,000 kilometres per hour., ...

DG5 is classified within the Apollo group—asteroids characterized by orbits that cross Earth's trajectory around the Sun. It ...

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...