The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket captured amazing images of Earth Monday (Oct. 7) during the launch of Europa's ...

Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters) ...

An asteroid was officially named Zhongnanshan in honor of the prominent Chinese respiratory disease expert during a naming ...

ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...

ATLAS, did not disappoint astronomers as it came within approximately 44 million miles of Earth on Saturday night.

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft on Monday (Oct. 7) toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation, ...

Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days ...

JAXA proudly tweeted pictures from the rovers, which reached Earth via the spaceship Hayabusa-2. Hayabusa-2 reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a three-and-a-half-year journey.

NASA's DART mission deliberately crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in 2022 as scientists test whether space objects can be ...

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...

What is the European Space Agency's Hera program? The ESA launched satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Monday morning ...

A spacecraft launched to study a small, harmless astroid hit by NASA two years ago to practice blasting asteroids that ...